https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00335-7
Kuo-Chen Chou asked on average to the authors of the papers he was editing to cite long lists of his own publications, on average 35 and sometimes more than 50. But who the Hell accepts a request to add 50 or even 30 or even 10 citations of someone into a paper ? What kind of researchers is Academia forming these days anyway? A bunch of spineless ones ?
