Last year, the soil science community was rocked
by reports that an editor, Artemi Cerdà, was accused of citation stacking — asking
authors to
cite particular papers — boosting his profile, and that of journals where he worked.
In
particular, Lysgaard (1950); this was
cited by several
authors in Shapley (1953); see also Willett (1950); on the shift of views, see Lamb (1966b), 171 - 72, also ix, 1 - 2.