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<h1 class="gmail-wi-article-title gmail-article-title-main">Academic misconduct and criminal liability: Manipulating academic journal impact factors</h1>
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<div class="gmail-ww-citation-primary"><em>Science and Public Policy</em>, scz019, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz019">https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz019</a></div>
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Although initially created to help libraries determine which journals to
include in their catalog, impact factors have become one of the most
utilized measures of journal ranking and they are increasingly used for
performance evaluations, tenure, promotion, and research grant
decisions. It is also a measure that some editors manipulate and this
manuscript questions the legality of that manipulation. Because impact
factor manipulation distorts information on journal rankings, and since
that information is used to make resource allocation decisions that
affect the dispersion of federal funds, that distortion violates the
False Statements Act. This deception is widespread; impact factor
manipulation has been documented in journals across academia. Moreover,
if editors coerce authors to add citations, then they may be putting
those authors at legal risk as well. Following our argument that impact
factor manipulation is illegal, we propose policy measures aimed at
curbing the use of such manipulative strategies. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Buona lettura</div><div>eg<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">dr. Elena Giglia<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Unità di progetto Open Access<br>Direzione Ricerca e Terza Missione<br>Universita' degli Studi di Torino<br>tel. +39.011.670<b>.4191</b></span><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Skype: egiglia<br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="http://www.oa.unito.it" target="_blank">www.oa.unito.it </a><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b>NOAD OpenAIRE Italy</b></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/" target="_blank">https://www.openaire.eu/</a></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="mailto:noad-it@openaire.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">noad-it@openaire.eu</a></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>