Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics:
"Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles and appeared in journals previously reported as paper mill targets. The resulting citations from suspected paper mill articles measurably inflated journal citation metrics."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1
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"Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3003532
PS: It's important to add that article-level metrics are preferable anyway. This is true whether we use citation metrics to measure impact or misuse them to measure quality.
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast majority of influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and that more authors, regardless of demographics, would be better recognized with article level data.
Il CNRS francese, dopo aver abbandonato Scopus (Elsevier), sospenderà a fine anno anche gli abbonamenti al padre di tutti i database bibliometrici commerciali, Clarivate Analytics, in seno al quale fu concepito nel secolo scorso – quando l’azienda si chiamava ISI – il fattore d’impatto. Così, mentre in Italia vigono ancora rigide soglie bibliometriche per accedere a commissioni e […]
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/il-cnrs-si-libera-dal-journal-impact-factor/