• Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research (2009)
• Citations Are the Currency of Science – Then there are the counterfeiters. (2020)   
• Citation Cartels in Academic Publishing — Where Promotion Ends and Manipulation Begins (2026)
• Collusion – Academic integrity – LibGuides at La Trobe University
• Detecting citation cartels in journal networks (2021)
• Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel (2026)
• Ethically Questionable Citation Practices (Office of Research Integrity)
• How to spot a “citation cartel” (2017)
• How to avoid collusion
• Journal citation cartels on the rise (updated 2015)
• Misrepresentation: Collusion
• Sharing isn’t always caring – collusion and how to avoid it (upd.2023)
• The Network of Law Reviews: Citation Cartels, Scientific Communities, and Journal Rankings (2018)
• Visualizing Citation Cartels (2016)
• Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations (2019)
• Identifying Anomalous Citations for Objective Evaluation of Scholarly Article Impact (2016)
• Vendor offering citations for purchase is latest bad actor in scholarly publishing (2024)
• What is a citation cartel? (Wikipedia)

Citation Gaming and Manipulation Patterns

• Citation Cartels: A Hidden Menace in the Scientific Publication (2024)
• Citation Cartels: Manipulating the Metrics of Authors and Journals
• Citation Cartels: Understanding Their Emergence and Impact on the Academic World (2024)
• Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature (2019)
• Citation Manipulation (COPE) (2019)
• Citation manipulation: a new wave of metrics ‘gaming’? (2024)
• Citation manipulation: endemic or exceptional? (2019)
• Citation Manipulation is Unethical (2019)
• Detecting trends in academic research from a citation network using network representation learning (2018)
• Fighting Citation Pollution – The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited (2019)
• Five Types of Citation Gaming: Data-Driven Taxonomy for Research Integrity and Academic Fraud (2026)
• How Citation Manipulation Is Corrupting Research—and What Scholars Can Do to Stop It (2024)
• The Citation Cartel Epidemic (2025) (ASAI)
• The Dark World of ‘Citation Cartels’ (2024)
• Toward the Discovery of Citation Cartels in Citation Networks (2016)

Journal mismanagement and challenges

• Academic integrity in the time of contradictions (2023) 
• Navigating Research Ethics: Strategies for Preventing and Addressing Research Misconduct (2024)
• Megajournal mismanagement: Manuscript decision bias and anomalous editor activity at PLOS ONE (2019)
• On Good and Bad Intentions behind Anomalous Citation Patterns among Journals in Computer Sciences (2018)
• Scientific journals must be alert to potential manipulation in citations and referencing (2022)
• Top tips on identifying citation misconduct
• Universities Must Unite in Fighting the Academic Publishing Cartels (2025)
• When Peer Reviewers Go Rogue – Estimated Prevalence of Citation Manipulation by Reviewers Based on the Citation Patterns of 69,000 Reviewers
• When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’ (2024)
• Why the Academic Publishing Cartel Must Be Challenged (2025)
• 8 No-Cost Ways to Mitigate Academic Misconduct in Higher Education (2024)

Self-citation, Stacking and Citation Abuse

• A Large-Scale Analysis of Impact Factor Biased Journal Self-Citations
• A quantitative and qualitative open citation analysis of retracted articles in the humanities (2022)
• Citation issues cost these 20 journals their impact factors this year (2025)
• Citation Manipulation (University of South Carolina)
• Citation manipulation through citation mills and pre-print servers (2025)
• From Excessive Journal Self-Cites to Citation Stacking: Analysis of Journal Self-Citation Kinetics in Search for Journals, Which Boost Their Scientometric Indicators (2016)
• Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database (2019)
• The increasing dominance of repeated citations from collaborative research groups in science (2025)
• Unmasking and Combating Publishing Malpractices 2: Citation Manipulation (2024)

Citation of Retracted Works

• Continued use of retracted papers: Temporal trends in citations and (lack of) awareness of retractions shown in citation contexts in biomedicine (2021)
• Does retraction after misconduct have an impact on citations? A pre–post study (2020)
• Reasons for citing retracted literature are not straightforward, and solutions are complex (2020)
• Self-citation pattern among world’s top 2 % of the scientists (2025)
• Retraction, PubPeer & Authorship Guide: Citing Retracted Literature
• The Citation of Retracted Papers and Impact on the Integrity of the Scientific Biomedical Literature (2025)
• The science of retraction (2002)
• Why do some retracted articles continue to get cited? (2024)

AI and citation manipulation

• Academic cheating with generative AI: Exploring a moral extension of the theory of planned behavior (2025)
• Academic Fraud in the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
• for Faculty Promotion and Tenure (2025)
• Academic integrity in the age of AI: challenges and strategies for African higher education (2025)
• Academic Dishonesty in the Age of Ai: Connecting Student
• Academic misconduct and artificial intelligence use by medical students, interns and PhD students in Ukraine: a cross-sectional study (2025)
• AI-Based Digital Cheating At University, and the Case for New Ethical Pedagogies (2025)
• Generative Ai Use and the Fraud Triangle Within Health Professions Education (2024)
• Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers (2026)
• HalluCitation Matters: Revealing the Impact of Hallucinated References with 300 Hallucinated Papers in ACL Conferences (2026)
• People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI (2025)
• Reassessing academic integrity in the age of AI: A systematic literature review on AI and academic integrity (2025)
• 20 Fake Citations Slip Past Peer Review: AI ‘Hallucinations’ Expose Crisis in Academic Publishing (2025)

Systematic Manipulation and Peer Review Fraud

• Academic Publishing’s Systematic Fraud: Legal Remedies for a Corrupted Enterprise (2025)
• Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: …(2025)
• Fighting the problem of fraud in publishing (2023)
• How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process (2025)
• Peer Review Fraud: The Dark Side of Scientific Publishing (2026)
• Rethinking peer review in the AI era with responsibility and transparency (2025)
• Retractions, Fake Peer Reviews, and Paper Mills (2021)
• Preventing fraud in biomedical research (2022)
• Scholarly Publishing, Boundary Processes, and the Problem of Fake Peer Reviews (2024)
• Systematic manipulation of the publication process (2024)
• The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly (2024)

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