{"id":9159,"date":"2017-11-19T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2017-11-19T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T19:51:59","slug":"phantom-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/11\/phantom-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting story\u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/harzing.com\/publications\/white-papers\/the-mystery-of-the-phantom-reference\">harzing.com:<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/scholar?cites=641078853689980389&amp;as_sdt=2005&amp;sciodt=0,5&amp;hl=de\">Google Scholar<\/a>, 703 to be exact.\u00a0Low \u00a0quality, missing\u00a0 control, careless editing, and fake journals, creepy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting story\u00a0at 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.\u00a0Low \u00a0quality, missing\u00a0 control, careless editing, and fake journals, creepy&#8230; &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/11\/phantom-reference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phantom reference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}