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How to increase your citation & H index

Golden Standard

Citation Volume and H index are golden standard for Professors in USA

Many tried but only few succeed What is their secret of success?

Lessons from the expert

Take this young professor In 2011, h index: 20 http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Tansu In 2014, h index = 43 http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-

siWAFChGykC&hl=en 3 years, h index increase from 20 to 43!

What is the secrets?

According to Gola Dem, Nelson Tansu applied 5 easy steps

Self Citation & More Self Citation

Tansu: Self Citation more than 50%

Example: Tansu, N., Zhao, H., Zhang, J., Liu, G.,

Li, X.-H., Ee, Y.-K., Song, R., Huang, G.S. 2011. Novel approaches for high-efficiency InGaN quantum wells light-emitting diodes: Device physics and epitaxy engineering Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering 7954, art. no. 795418

40 self citations out of 49 references!

Make student write papers & cite your paper

Self Plagiarism: Double or Triple Publication

Publish the same article 2 or even 3 times Also each article contains many self citations

Self Plagiarism: Triple Publications

Self Plagiarism:

After publishing the same paper 3 times, even apply for a patent! Quadruple self plagiarism.

Attend SPIE Conference

Attend SPIE and present many papers. The papers are not refereed. Add lots of self citations. Example: In 2010, Tansu presented 6 papers at SPIE. Each paper has 27 to 40 self citations In total Tansu achieved 176 self citations in a single

SPIE conference.

Rapid Self Citations

Cite own paper excessively in the first 2 sentences!

Quote more references

To make it less obvious that you are doing self citation, quote many other references as well.

Example if you have 15 self citation, quote 80 other references in a paper. It looks like a small percent of self citation, but you already got 15 self citation.

A paper in Nature also said an easy way to boost paper citation is to include many more references http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100813/full/news.2010.406.html

New Strategies

Citation Club Become a journal editor Coercive citation

Citation club

Citation clubs – cartels of colleagues who do deals to cite each others’ work

A lot of academic work is already based on mutual admiration, citation and back scratching.

Tansu Club

Citation Machine

Journal Editor

MDPI is a questionable predator journal full of retractions. Nelson Tansu is the editor of MDPI Photonics.

Write an editorial: 9 self citations in own paper http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/1/1/1

Hindawi, a dodgy OA Publisher http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2013/01/09/hindawi-another-dodgy-oa-publisher/

Nelson Tansu is also an editor for Hindawi International Journal of Photoenergy .

Article”Efficiency and Droop Improvement in GaN-Based High-Voltage Flip Chip LEDs” was edited by Tansu and contains 5 Tansu citations. Citing Editor’s article is a must. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/2014/385257/ref/

how to get publish

Submit to Photonics and International Journal of Photoenergy. Make sure you cite editor’s paper a lot. Magic happens

Coercive Citation

IEEE OSA Journal of Display Technology Volume 9, Issue 4 (April 2013).

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6481607&punumber=9425

Guest Editorial Recent Advances in Solid State Lighting is N Tansu

All papers are coerced to cite, 9-12 citations per paper to the Guest Editor.

Coercive Citation

Another special issue IEEE OSA Journal of Display Technology in Volume 9, Issue 5 (May 2013). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6488740&punumber=9425 Guest Editor: N. Tansu.

Each paper from Asia has 9-15 citations to N. Tansu. Editor N Tansu gain more than 270 citations in 2

special issues

Conclusions

Knowing the right trick and being an editor allows one to increase H index and citation volume