> An armchair effort
Given the authors credentials and publication history [1] it's a bit disingenuous to call this an 'armchair effort'.
[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i5sEc1YAAAAJ&hl=en...
Given the authors credentials and publication history [1] it's a bit disingenuous to call this an 'armchair effort'.
[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i5sEc1YAAAAJ&hl=en...
EDIT:
Specifically, self-citation is the biggest issue, though often there are very good reasons to do it. For example, if you are working on a new area there might not be a lot of work other than yours. However, mindless self-citation grows the number of citation at O(N), as your n^th paper cites the (n - 1) papers before it. The total citation count grows by O(N^2)).