{"id":4334,"date":"2014-01-30T01:47:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T06:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2014-02-03T01:49:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:49:50","slug":"citation-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"Citation cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRYING TO ESCAPE THE LONG TAIL OF THE UNIMPACTFUL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cit.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4509\" alt=\"cit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cit.gif\" width=\"441\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We once heard &#8216;when you invent a system, you invent the game that plays that system&#8217;. We remember this from our time in industry. No matter how you&#8217;d choose to compensate salespeople, they&#8217;d find the loopholes and exploit them. Academics are no different. Enjoy this Nature News piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/brazilian-citation-scheme-outed-1.13604?WT.mc_id=PIN_NatureNews\">Brazilian citation scheme outed<\/a>&#8220;. The tale takes place in Brazil, but we&#8217;ve heard about shenanigans in other countries as well. No matter how you choose to measure academic output, academics will game it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone smart said something like &#8216;when you invent a system, you invent the game that plays that system&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,16,2],"tags":[766,771,765,764,767,774,770,768,773,769,772],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ideas","category-research-news","tag-academic","tag-brazil","tag-cartel","tag-citation","tag-dishonesty","tag-editors","tag-factor","tag-impact","tag-journals","tag-long-tail","tag-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-17U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}