We all know that Google Scholar is manipulatable, but this is the first time I saw someone seeking to violate citation integrity publicly on a large scale. It’s also not hard to guess that this user works on AI.

This RedNote post shocked me today.

An anonymous user says they are going to upload 60 papers to arXiv soon and are looking for “citation partners” to boost citation counts together by citing each other.

Something is seriously wrong in the system of evaluating researchers by citation counts.