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Best paper 2025 du journal de "Association for Information Science and Technology"

For "Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts"

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Award jurors note that the paper is “A fascinating story ... reads like a police procedural.... A paper you can assign at a reading to provoke discussion about nefarious goings on in academic citations.”

The paper “report evidence of an undocumented method to manipulate citation counts involving “sneaked” references. Sneaked references are registered as metadata for published scientific articles in which they do not appear. This manipulation exploits trusted relationships between various actors: publishers, the Crossref metadata registration agency, digital libraries, and bibliometric platforms.
 

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Submitted on September 9, 2025

Updated on October 3, 2025