Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
In case you are wondering what it looks like when someone decides to engage in citation gaming. 
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=7lKZY1MAAAAJ
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@vickysteeves @drb Same
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@bgcarlisle
I did call him out on it so maybe he deleted?
@vickysteeves
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@drb @vickysteeves What was it? I'm perversely curious
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@bgcarlisle @vickysteeves basically someone with around 100-150 citations per years for 2016-2019, then 950 citations so far in 2020.
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@bgcarlisle @vickysteeves my favorite part was that if you looked into some of the papers you'd find one from like 2015 which had maybe a small handful of citations per year until 2020 when it was suddenly cited 60 times. That would be a rock star level of being 'discovered'.
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@drb @bgcarlisle @vickysteeves What was the actual mechanism of gaming the citations?
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@jaranta @bgcarlisle @vickysteeves I came across it because the person submitted a preprint to my server citing his own work several dozen times. Digging in a little further, it looked like a combination of using preprints and just a large group of people citing each other. Many in journal published works.
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@drb That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!
Citation gaming, Google Scholar link
@drb 404'd