Research Evaluation

A Manifesto for Rewarding and Recognizing Team Infrastructure Roles

The Scientific Reform Movement has highlighted the need for large research teams with diverse skills. This has necessitated the growth of professional team infrastructure roles (TIRs) who support research through specialised skills, but do not have …

Sneaked references: Cooked reference metadata inflate citation counts

We report evidence of an undocumented method to manipulate citation counts involving 'sneaked' references. Sneaked references are registered as metadata for scientific articles in which they do not appear. This manipulation exploits trusted …