What is it called when authors trade citations?
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Citation is one metric of researchers. That is why some of them lend citation to one another. For example, A writes a paper and cites B's work in it, and then B does the same for A, without the citations being relevant to the works. Is there any word for such academic misconduct? I can think of "citation exchange", but I couldn't find any reference about it.
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