[AISWorld] Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing

[Joseph Davis]

I remember an earlier discussion on the practice and ethics of coercive citation in this forum.  The attached policy forum article in a recent issue of Science addresses this issue.  Some of the conclusions of the survey on which the article is based include:

"Authors in most of the business disciplines
appear more likely to continue submitting
to coercive journals than those in
economics and sociology. Senior faculty
members are more likely to resist coercive
demands, whereas junior faculty members
are more likely to acquiesce. Finally, we fi nd
that familiarity coexists with acceptance.
Scholars in disciplines that more frequently
practice coercion see it as less inappropriate". (pp.542)


http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/542.full.pdf

Reference:

Allen W. White and Erica A. Fong, Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing, Policy Forum, Vol. 335, Science, 3 February 2012, pp. 542-543.




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