2 papers
cs.DL2024
Year after year: Tortured conference series thriving in Computer Science
Wendeline Swart, Guillaume Cabanac
The 'Problematic Paper Screener' (PPS, WCRI'22, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04895) flagged 12k+ questionable articles featuring tortured phrases, such as 'glucose bigotry'…
cs.DL2023
Sneaked references: Cooked reference metadata inflate citation counts
Lonni Besançon, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé +1
We report evidence of an undocumented method to manipulate citation counts involving 'sneaked' references. Sneaked references are registered as metadata for scientific articles in…