I posted a link a couple of days ago to a story about citation cartels in universities in China and Saudi Arabia, where locals are working to pump up the citation counts of their colleagues.  Now this preprint:  you don't have to have complacent colleagues in cahoots with you if you can just go out on the open market and buy yourself some citations.

           https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

Jim O'Donnell

ASU