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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-07-11 and was most recently seen on 2026-07-11.
A citation cartel is a group of academic authors who collude to cite one another's publications in order to artificially increase their citation impact. In many cases the cited works have no strong relevance to the works they are cited in. The practice of making excessive or spurious citations is known as citation stacking.
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