As the administrators, Universities, foundations and etc. pay attention to the IF and CI (Citation Index), some our colleagues adopt to this. And they create adaptive method how to increase their IF and CI.
They make a consortium with 20-30 scientists and write collective paper. Each time one writes paper and puts coauthors all consortium members, therefore their Citation increases 20-30 times. Unfortunately Journals don't care about the number of authors. But question is that: why 20-30 scientist is needed to write 10 page paper (and from different countries)? or how they share this work between each other? Each writes one paragraph?
Is not it ridiculous? Will not the journal to pay attention on this matter?
My answer is: Yes.
I know some papers which have more authors list, then paper text itself. Is not funny one 10 page paper has 100 to 300 authors. Are not they shame to be author of such paper? My answer is NO. They don't care, the aim is to increase CI. :-)
George, we are from the time when science was a poorly paying but respectable career option. For me, it was not even a career, but an interest. Nowadays, things have changed. Science is now a highly competitive career option, where, if you play the game right, you can lead a good life. People following glamorous taxa or subjects get news coverage, are feted, get prizes; those studying flatworms get nothing, regardless of the excellence of their work. So it is only natural that cliques develop to face the situation of a highly competitive funding system, where big names get everything and the mediocre get nothing. It is the same in spectator sports. In the 70s and 80s, one did not need to suspect that matches were fixed, since there was little to gain. Today, I avoid watching any matches above inter-school or inter-college, because there is big money involved (illegal cricket betting in India is worth billions annually and funds terrorist organisations) so one does not know if one is watching sports or an active dance to the bookie's tune.
I read in another thread yesterday that one publisher of scientific journals had a profit of 2 billion dollars last year. Do you seriously think that individuals like us can stand up against the sort of influence that kind of money can buy? Can you blame youngsters for trying to beat an unfair system? If authorship is the name of the game, can you blame them for having more authors than text? For them, it means survival in a tough world subject to market forces. It is not only about seeking truth and beauty, prying out nature's secrets for the welfare of mankind anymore.
Dear Peter
Thank you for your answer. It really looks for survival, but not fair with other honest scientists, who can't follow these rules.
Recently I have published an article entitled "Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency" which is available online on http://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585 . You can find over 33 different ways for increasing the citations impact.
@ All RG Members
I thank Dr. Ali Gazni, really an expert,
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali_Gazni
who send me the following mail:
Dear Ouerfelli,
The following link is a video in English language investigated the effect of journal’s impact factor on the paper’s citations. It could help you as a researcher and/or a research manager to choose right journals for the publications and to know about the extent to which the quality of the journals influences the papers’ citations. Other learning objectives of these videos are to know, the Nobel prize winners publish their papers in which group of journals, and to know about the publishing strategies in top global-ranked universities.
The training video in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAobljYHW4&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAobljYHW4
Best,
Ali Gazni
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Regional Information Center for Science and Technology.
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