since joining the dental school in 2020. Nearly all are from Saveetha. “I realized that this may be something like a university trying to cite itself more for gaining some rankings or something of that sort,” he says, adding that he sees school officials “posting regularly that they are very highly published.”
It is not clear when the citations are added or who adds them. But they help each of the referenced papers climb the citation ranks. One cited paper, for example, is, which describes a geometrical method for classifying the shapes of human faces—a topic with no obvious connection to machining steel. It has garnered 169 citations according to Google Scholar; all but four are from papers written by Saveetha authors.
Venugopal, who is also an associate professor at the University of Puthisastra, says he first became aware of the widespread self-citation last year. He emailed Saveetha administrators asking for an explanation, but has received no reply. Meanwhile, he regularly gets alerts of new citations—“again another paper by Saveetha.”
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