Nigeria, Aug. 19 -- In the past few days, I have been drawn into several discussions and debates about a troubling malpractice that is quietly gaining momentum in certain countries and beginning to seep into Nigeria. It is the sham of citation cartels and the artificial inflation of publication numbers. What makes it alarming is the brazenness with which some academics are presenting these ridiculous records of achievement. You hear of a PhD student emerging after three years with sixty or more publications. You see early career academics parading hundreds of citations gathered in the space of months. Anyone familiar with how real research works knows this is impossible under genuine academic conditions. What is happening is not scholarsh...
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