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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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
<i>Science </i>addresses this issue<i>. </i>Some of the conclusions of the survey on which the article is based include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">“Authors in most of the business disciplines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">appear more likely to continue submitting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">to coercive journals than those in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">economics and sociology. Senior faculty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">members are more likely to resist coercive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">demands, whereas junior faculty members<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">are more likely to acquiesce. Finally, we fi nd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">that familiarity coexists with acceptance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">Scholars in disciplines that more frequently<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif"">practice coercion see it as less inappropriate”. (pp.542)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/542.full.pdf">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/542.full.pdf</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Reference:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Allen W. White and Erica A. Fong, Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing, Policy Forum, Vol. 335, Science, 3 February 2012, pp. 542-543.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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