> In the scientific world there are no spammers and there is no direct commercial advantage to creating a lot of nonsense paper that cite your own paper, also there is some oversight in the world of science and the people there have a reasonably high level of integrity.
Um...what? If it were anyone but the OP, who always writes with a lot of thoughtfulness and insight, I would've assumed the graf above is satire. Academic discovery and citation is very much being gamed; the only reason why we don't notice it more is because the academics don't have the same tools and infrastructure that web spammers do and, also, the world of academic research is not something the average person outside of academia closely parses.
Um...what? If it were anyone but the OP, who always writes with a lot of thoughtfulness and insight, I would've assumed the graf above is satire. Academic discovery and citation is very much being gamed; the only reason why we don't notice it more is because the academics don't have the same tools and infrastructure that web spammers do and, also, the world of academic research is not something the average person outside of academia closely parses.