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Remembering this and related reports of the distribution of article-level citations in Nature ... Riikonen P, Vihinen M. National research contributions: A case study on Finnish biomedical research. Scientometrics. 2008 Nov 1;77(2):207-22. https://akjournals.com/view/journals/11192/77/2/article-p207.xml Nature sells impact (factor), hence there is a bias towards publishing papers that will accrue more citations in the next two years than its current impact factor times 2, since that is (or it is said to be*) the formula for computing the impact factor of a journal. * As per @brembs et al.: "there is evidence that IF is, at least in some cases, not calculated but negotiated, that it is not reproducible, and that, even if it were reproducibly computed, the way it is derived is not mathematically sound" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3748 #ScientificPublishing