Internal messages show how the new head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

For years, Professor Juan Manuel Corchado demanded that his collaborators include up to 20 references to his own work in their papers. On Friday he took office as the new rector of Salamanca University in Spain

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🎓 Internal messages show how the new head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel - El País

「 “Collect everything you have (master’s thesis, final projects, dissertations, etc.) and include in them 20 references from among those that I have attached in the Word document as well as 10 articles from ADCAIJ.” The attached file included almost 50 Corchado publications 」

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Internal messages show how the new head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

For years, Professor Juan Manuel Corchado demanded that his collaborators include up to 20 references to his own work in their papers. On Friday he took office as the new rector of Salamanca University in Spain

EL PAÍS English