Editorial

摘要

A recent article in the Policy Forum of Science (Wilhite and Fong, 2012, p. 542) suggests that coercive citatidn is "uncomfortably common and appears to be practiced opportunistically" in academic publishing. The authors describe coercive citation as: [...] requests that (i) give no indication that the manuscript was lacking in attribution; (ii) make no suggestion as to specific articles, authors, or a body of work requiring review; and (iii) only guide authors to add citations from the editor's journal. The article also contends that coercive citation practices are "more prevalent in most business disciplines," that journals published by commercial, for-profit companies show significantly greater use of coercive tactics, and that "the strategic nature of coercion continues to put pressure on editors to coerce".