The workshop provides background to citation pollution and its effect on scholarly integrity and scholarly reputations. It is intended to provide the academic library community with an understanding to further engage with their respective decision and policy makers on how to distinguish between questionable and legitimate science, and the tools currently available to assist within this process. The importance of dealing with illegitimate research in a timely manner, both from a scholarly communications and research quality perspective, is emphasised.

Speaker Biography:

Wynand van der Walt is Senior Manager: Innovation, Systems and Collections at Rhodes University Library. He holds a Masters in IT from the University of Pretoria and is currently enrolled for a PhD at KU Leuven. His areas of interest are: leadership for innovation; digitisation and digital curation, scholarly communication, and the semantic web and how it affects library-related technologies.