Author-based metrics (ABMs) and journal-based metrics (JBMs), as well as citations, are the dominant currency of intellectual recognition in academia. The system, dominated by a few large analytics companies, is riddled with perverse incentives that encourage scholars, editors, publishers, and journals to manipulate their citation scores, all to the detriment of scholarly ethics.
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