--- title: Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel description: Elsevier retracted 12 finance papers co-authored by Brian Lucey, a Trinity College Dublin professor who served as editor on journals where he approved his own... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal-citation-cartel-jmqsczcsn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel | daily.dev og:description: Elsevier retracted 12 finance papers co-authored by Brian Lucey, a Trinity College Dublin professor who served as editor on journals where he approved his own... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal-citation-cartel-jmqsczcsn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jMQscZcsN.png og:image:alt: Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elsevier retracted 12 finance papers co-authored by Brian Lucey, a Trinity College Dublin professor who served as editor on journals where he approved his own submissions. The scheme involved co-authorship trading and citation stacking within Elsevier's Finance Journals Ecosystem, artificially inflating impact factors. Lucey was removed from editorial roles at 5 journals; his former PhD student Samuel Vigne was also removed from two editorial positions. Analysis shows ecosystem citations per article were 103% higher after the ecosystem launched in 2020. Critics argue Elsevier itself benefited from the arrangement through higher impact factors, making it a case of systemic institutional corruption rather than individual misconduct. Investigators are now examining private consultancies operated by Lucey and Vigne as potential vehicles for pay-to-publish schemes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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