As part of two larger projects in 2025 I identified four articles about bibliometrics published in journals identified as sources of racial hereditarian research. These four articles are relatively insignificant in the larger bibliometrics literature, but they form a natural experiment for both testing the scope of what is available in the bibliometrics data sources and the impact of racial hereditarian research on bibliometrics as a field.
An outlier paper in the study is the most highly cited paper for all of the authors in the paper. While the total number of citations is small, the impact on these particular authors is large. This unique linked data set identifies a new problem with the naive use of citation counts as a basis of quality in scientific communication.
