The strength of most interactions in nature typically decreases with the distance between objects or constituents. The most famous example is Newton’s gravitational force, which is known to decay with ...

The ever-increasing competitiveness in the academic publishing market incentivizes journal editors to pursue higher impact factors. This translates into journals becoming more selective, and, ...

An interconnected global network of computer scientists aggressively boosted each other’s metrics through citation manipulation and compromised peer review.

The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular field, a pool of peer-reviewed sources built over years of research and study.