The gaming of citation and authorship in academic journals: a warning from medicine - Stuart Macdonald, 2023

Many authors in medicine have made no meaningful contribution to the article that bears their names, and those who have contributed most are often not named as authors. Author slots are openly bought and sold. The problem is magnified by the academic publishing industry and by academic institutions, pleased to pretend that peer review is safeguarding scholarship

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/05390184221142218