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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