Nelson Tansu was able to increase his h-index from 20 to 43 in just 3 years by employing strategies like heavy self-citation of his own work, encouraging students and co-authors to cite his papers, publishing the same work multiple times with self-citations, presenting many non-refereed conference papers containing self-citations, rapidly self-citing in the first two sentences of papers, becoming an editor of journals to coerce citations to his work from authors, and forming citation clubs or cartels with colleagues. Some of these strategies have been criticized as questionable or coercive ways to artificially boost citations and metrics.

1. WEN TANG
How to increase your citation & H index

2. Golden Standard
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Citation Volume and H index are golden standard for Professors in USA
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Many tried but only few succeed
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What is their secret of success?

3. Lessons from the expert
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Take this young professor
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In 2011, h index: 20
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http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Tansu
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In 2014, h index = 43
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http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=- siWAFChGykC&hl=en
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3 years, h index increase from 20 to 43!

4. What is the secrets?
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According to Gola Dem, Nelson Tansu applied 5 easy steps

5. Self Citation & More Self Citation
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Tansu: Self Citation more than 50%
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Example:
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Tansu, N., Zhao, H., Zhang, J., Liu, G., Li, X.-H., Ee, Y.-K., Song, R., Huang, G.S. 2011. Novel approaches for high- efficiency InGaN quantum wells light- emitting diodes: Device physics and epitaxy engineering Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering 7954, art. no. 795418
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40 self citations out of 49 references!

6. Make student write papers & cite your paper

8. Self Plagiarism: Double or Triple Publication
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Publish the same article 2 or even 3 times
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Also each article contains many self citations

9. Self Plagiarism: Triple Publications

10. Self Plagiarism:
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After publishing the same paper 3 times, even apply for a patent! Quadruple self plagiarism.

11. Attend SPIE Conference
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Attend SPIE and present many papers.
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The papers are not refereed. Add lots of self citations.
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Example:
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In 2010, Tansu presented 6 papers at SPIE.
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Each paper has 27 to 40 self citations
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In total Tansu achieved 176 self citations in a single SPIE conference.

12. Rapid Self Citations
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Cite own paper excessively in the first 2 sentences!

13. Quote more references
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To make it less obvious that you are doing self citation, quote many other references as well.
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Example if you have 15 self citation, quote 80 other references in a paper. It looks like a small percent of self citation, but you already got 15 self citation.
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A paper in Nature also said an easy way to boost paper citation is to include many more references http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100813/full/news.2010.406.html

14. New Strategies
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Citation Club
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Become a journal editor
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Coercive citation

15. Citation club
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Citation clubs – cartels of colleagues who do deals to cite each others’ work
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A lot of academic work is already based on mutual admiration, citation and back scratching.
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Tansu Club

16. Citation Machine

17. Journal Editor
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MDPI is a questionable predator journal full of retractions. Nelson Tansu is the editor of MDPI Photonics.
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Write an editorial: 9 self citations in own paper http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/1/1/1
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Hindawi, a dodgy OA Publisher http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2013/01/09/hindawi-another-dodgy-oa-publisher/
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Nelson Tansu is also an editor for Hindawi International Journal of Photoenergy .
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Article”Efficiency and Droop Improvement in GaN-Based High-Voltage Flip Chip LEDs” was edited by Tansu and contains 5 Tansu citations. Citing Editor’s article is a must. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/2014/385257/ref/

18. how to get publish
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Submit to Photonics and International Journal of Photoenergy. Make sure you cite editor’s paper a lot. Magic happens

19. Coercive Citation
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IEEE OSA Journal of Display Technology Volume 9, Issue 4 (April 2013).
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Guest Editorial Recent Advances in Solid State Lighting is N Tansu
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All papers are coerced to cite, 9-12 citations per paper to the Guest Editor.

20. Coercive Citation
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Another special issue IEEE OSA Journal of Display Technology in Volume 9, Issue 5 (May 2013). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6488740&punumber=9425 Guest Editor: N. Tansu.
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Each paper from Asia has 9-15 citations to N. Tansu.
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Editor N Tansu gain more than 270 citations in 2 special issues

21. Conclusions
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Knowing the right trick and being an editor allows one to increase H index and citation volume