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Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation

retractionwatch.comBug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflationMillions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…

11/11/25, 5:54 pm14 reposts30 likes

Tamás Kriváchy

@krivachytamas.bsky.social

Delighted to see the work covered here!! Great write-up in my opinion.