Citations are gameable too — author argues paper-count KPIs are even worse
menhguin · x · 2026-09-20
Expanding on his earlier point about paper-count KPIs, the author argues citations are also gameable without substantive contributions (he's good at AI SEO), but raw paper quantity is genuinely useless or counterproductive. He notes he got 500 citations in his first year of independent publishing, underscoring how inflated the metrics are.
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