Abnormal Citing Patterns on 10.1007/s43207-023-00289-2
Abnormal citing patterns are observed on the article [1], which cites a total number of 50 references, 7 of them were coauthored by the Trukhanov family. All of those 7 references are irrelevant both to the topic of the article [1] and the citing statement. The reason for these extraneous citations remains unclear. While it seems improbable that the authors selected them randomly, there is no solid evidence to suggest reviewers compelled these citations.
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