Citation Bribery.

Not really for I Chemistry - A European Journal i as the 2018 citations to papers other than Reviews and Articles account for a mere 0.1 % of all citations (still, think of the accuracy once more). In addition to the aforementioned issues, there is a problem that is less often discussed: The overrated accuracy notwithstanding, it is not at all clear what citation counts are actually measuring.[6] Since usually a journal is regarded better than another one with a lower Impact Factor, one would have to assume that the Impact Factor is a direct measure of quality. In the group of ChemPubSoc Europe journals we have observed several times that after rejection and resubmission to a different journal, strangely enough, a lot of references to the rejecting journal were replaced by references to the new journal. So this is my plea: Since the Impact Factor, and similar citation-based metrics, are likely to prevail and will continue to be used for evaluating not only journals but also researchers who publish in them, could you as an author please pay more attention to the citations, bearing in mind their implications. [Extracted from the article]