Kóczy, László Á.; Martin, Strobel - Maastricht : METEOR, Maastricht Research School of … - 2008
We show that the invariant method (Pinski and Narin, 1976), recently axiomatised by Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004), and used to quality-rank academic journals is subject to manipulation: a journal can boost its performance by making additional citations to other journals.