Phantom reference

There is an interesting story at harzing.com: A conference template with a dummy reference, that was supposed to be edited by abstract authors, was finally cited by 400 authors :) I find even more citations at Google Scholar, 703 to be exact. Low  quality, missing  control, careless editing, and fake journals, creepy…

 

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