Dear Dr Hom

Thank you for your nice question, I have found very interesting article entitled:

Why researchers keep citing retracted papers

By Keith Collins , December 31, 2015

Ref:https://qz.com/583497/researchers-keep-citing-these-retracted-papers/

I invite you and all dear friends and colleagues to read it!

I think in every case we should find the root and then try to find the solution and treatment rationally .

Careful literature scanning can control false citations completely.

Thank you so much Dr Mahesh Kumar participating on this discussion and sharing your views.

The use of data in the organization of science and the evaluation of scientific achievements is on the rise. The research and evaluation of research conducted on a regular basis by researchers and scientists is routinely conducted according to specific indicators. However, That the arbitration of scientific research has become dependent on data, more than depends on good judgment. The use of indicators has widened in a well-intentioned practice, but it is underfunded and often misused.

Dear Dr. Hom Nath Chalise, I think a careful verification of sources of citations and putting some limits to self citation will help.

Reviewers must stop the habit of inserting their own work as suitable references when reviewing an article. Reviewers must also check for self citation and reject them if they are not the best. Journals must also desist from making a demand that authors should cite work from their stable as a precondition to submitting a paper to their journal

Critically affirming sources of references to be used in any scientific publications and also agree with Dr. Chukwuebuka Egbuna on setting limit on self citation.

In 2000, we had the Citation Index on a CD-ROM, prepared by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), and used by experts in specialized analysis. In 2002, Thomson Reuters launched a Web of Science; made its science database widely available, and then competed two martyrdom services, Scopus from Elsevier (launched in 2004) ), And Google Scholar (the beta was released in 2004). Electronic tools have been created to easily compare institutions and universities in the production of scientific research, such as InCites (using the Thomson Reuters database), SciVal (Scopas), and software that analyzes citation files for each Individual, depending on the Google Scholar service (such as Publish or Perish, released in 2007).

Dear Dr Borden Mushonga : Controlling self citations is not easy work by the reviewer, every authors wants to go for self citations if they have already work in that field. How it can be controlled.

Thank you for inputs @ Dr Djaafar Zemali Dr Oluwaseun A. Otekunrin Dr Chukwuebuka Egbuna

Authors should prevent false citations through careful literature scan. Reviewers can point them out and ask the author to correct them. Editors may also detect such citation while editorial review before sending papers to reviewers. A few (1 or 2 ) relevant self citation is acceptable.

Thank you Dr YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Dear Dr Hom

Thank you for your nice question, I have found very interesting article entitled:

Why researchers keep citing retracted papers

By Keith Collins , December 31, 2015

Ref:https://qz.com/583497/researchers-keep-citing-these-retracted-papers/

I invite you and all dear friends and colleagues to read it!

I think in every case we should find the root and then try to find the solution and treatment rationally .

In 2005, George Hersh, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, proposed an indicator h, which contributed to the promotion of the number of citations for each researcher. Interest in the cyclic effect factor increased steadily after 1995

cross referencing can do this .

Dear Dr Parisa Ziarati thank you for sharing the interesting paper, I will go through it.

Recently, associated with the social use of indicators and comments on the Internet momentum gained, manifested in the establishment F1000Prime service in 2002, serving Mendeley in 2008, and the location of Altmetric.com (backed by Macmillan Science and Education, which owns the Nature Publishing Group) in 2011.

Dear All,

You can read the following example ( The Google Scholar Experiment: how to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators) https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1309/1309.2413.pdf

Also, good journals have cross referencing that you can check it.

There are scientific institutions that require candidates' H index before hiring them. There are many universities that make the decisions to promote and advertise themselves, based on the minimum values of the index h, and the number of articles published in the journals «high impact». Biographies of researchers have created opportunities to boast about these indicators, especially in the field of biomedicine. Doctoral masters are asking researchers to publish in high-impact journals and obtain external funding to be eligible for a doctorate.

Persons with lack of ethical value and principle in life can do many such things. Such people are found in every sector of the society.

As a writer of any article, everybody should verify the original paper before citation in his/ her own paper as much as practicable.

This is the only way to control this CRIME.

Thanks.

Dear Dr Alaa El Din Mahmoud, thank you so much sharing the wonderful paper.

Regards

Hom

Check the authenticity by your own or read papers of reputed publishers only.

Thank you so much Dr Shibabrata Pattanayak Dr Prabhjot Kaur Dr Djaafar Zemali

Would take a lot of manpower and womanpower to take on the task that is, tto some extent at least, taken on be editors and peer reviewers if they really want the paper in their scientific journal. If they are indifferent to the paper, the task is left up to the author(s) if they want the paper considered for publication.

Keeping quality papers accessible to the public will promote good citation. Nothing wrong with self citation as long as it is relevant and useful for the present study

generating ethical sense among reserchers.

Thank you so much Dr Ajit kumar Roy Dr Segun Michael Abegunde Dr Dennis Mazur

In my opinion, false citations can be identified and controlled by checking their original source.

Check whether the cited reference actually relevant and supports the point. Also cross check all reference with the original source.

Of course, any appearance of false information should be fought.

But as I know, one of very famous physicists (about 100 years ago) jokingly referred his readers to the Journal "Одесский Извозчик" which in English means something like "Odessa-Coachman"