Recently, i observed that an author has cited a couple of my papers abnormally. my citation count in research gate and google scholar has gone up within few days. When i checked the papers published by the authors, none of the papers are relevant to the cited papers. for example, published papers belong to engineering and sciences and my papers are in management. I am in dilemma, as anyone who looks into my citation will consider as i am faking the citations. Any solutions?
Dear Mohamed Mihilar Shamil ,
This is indeed a strange matter. I checked one of the papers that cited you(rs) and noticed that what happened is two-fold:
-The title is changed somewhat and the author’s name (and one of the claimed co-authors) is changed (or even not mentioned in the fake version)
-Numerous seemingly unrelated references are added to the fake version of the original one
Compare enclosed files. Didn’t figured out why but someone is manipulating the system, I would report this to the RG team: https://www.researchgate.net/contact and/or RG support team is using this contact e-mail: [email protected]
Best regards.
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