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By definition a paper which is wrong is going to be cited a whole bunch as people disprove it though.

The real issue is that citation count is a terrible metric and always has been (when I was doing research the magic you wanted was the low but not no citation count paper which went into a huge amount of detail on exactly what they did).

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My most cited paper has the head of an institution down as an author. Most, but far from all, of the citations are from students there. A previous paper introduced the concept and tools to apply it, while the cited paper just adds an example application and a host of authors.

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