Reviewers Suggested Massive Coercive Citations for 10.1371/journal.pone.0299807

Tow of the reviewers for the article [1], the reviewer 1 and the reviewer 3, suggested massive coercive citations, according to the open peer review report published with the article [1].

The reviewer 1 suggested 12 coercive citations at the 1st round of peer review. Those 12 coerive citations have one common author, Cem Işık with Anadolu University, Türkiye. And the reviewer 3 suggested 11 coercive citations at the 2nd round of the peer review. Those 11 coerive citations have one common author, Henan Agricultural University, China.

Although the authors of the article [1] citted the above-mentioned coercive citations, they deleted some of them at the final manuscript.



Reference

[1] 10.1371/journal.pone.0299807






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-2025.000053

Publication Date: 2025.05.10

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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