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   Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 23:06:57 JST Waldo Jaquith

   Remember Google’s algorithmic premise? The more links to a page, the more prominent it should be in search results? Now remember how spammers gamed that? The exact same thing is unfolding in the scientific world, where the number of incoming citations has become an indication how authoritative that a paper is. https://www.science.org/content/article/citation-cartels-help-some-mathematicians-and-their-universities-climb-rankings

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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 23:07:48 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @waldoj we need to deploy scientist robot spammers to make the most authoritative papers possible
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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:27:04 JST phiofx

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     @waldoj oh, but academics will surely self-regulate that behavior in order not to drown the signal noise? /s