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melling on Aug 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists reveale...

People who are rewarded are the people most cited, even if they are citing themselves.

Think that’s producing the best scientific results?

reallydude on Aug 20, 2019 [–]

> Think that’s producing the best scientific results?

That's a strawman. The answer you were looking for is, "I don't know". I don't know either.

melling on Aug 20, 2019 | [–]

I’d say it makes Publish or perish even worse:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish

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