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  • Discussion: How to build stable long‑term academic collaborations

    Collaboration

    Successful academic cooperation relies on clear task division, regular communication and mutual respect for different research backgrounds. Unclear responsibility division often leads to conflicts.

    Aaron Roberts, Tping and 10 others
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  • Over‑reliance on citation metrics: what gets lost?

    Citation counts are widely used to evaluate research output. Yet high‑citation papers are not always the most rigorous, and solid niche work may get very few citations. How should we interpret citation numbers sensibly?

    Dylan Rogers, Donald Thomas and 24 others
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    • Citation counts are heavily biased toward popular hot topics; high‑quality niche work suffers unfairly.

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      • Self‑citations and citation rings can artificially inflate numbers, so do not treat metrics as absolute truth.

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