Daily Important LIS Questions December 2025

Daily LIS Quiz

Daily Important LIS Question - December 2025

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12 Dec 2025

Adding an author who made no real contribution is known as:

A Gift authorship

B Guest authorship

C Ghost authorship

D False authorship

✓Answer:(A) Gift authorship

Gift authorship = including someone as an author without any meaningful contribution. It violates the authorship criteria of ICMJE.

11 Dec 2025

A group of authors excessively citing each other to increase citation metrics is called:

A Citation enhancement

B Citation recycling

C Citation cartel

D Citation clustering

✓Answer:(C) Citation cartel

A citation cartel occurs when authors or journals mutually cite each other to artificially increase impact. Journals may blacklist such groups.

10 Dec 2025

Publishing the same research results in two journals without cross-reference is:

A Salami slicing

B Redundant publication

C Ethical publication

D Gift authorship

✓Answer:(B) Redundant publication

Redundant (duplicate) publication = publishing identical or substantially similar content in more than one journal. This is prohibited by COPE and most journals.

09 Dec 2025

Which of the following is an example of peer review manipulation?

A Reviewer recommending revisions

B Authors suggesting experts as reviewers

C Authors giving fake email IDs of suggested reviewers

D Reviewer rejecting a poorly written paper

✓Answer:(C) Authors giving fake email IDs of suggested reviewers

Providing fake reviewer details so that authors can review their own papers is one of the most serious publication frauds. Several retractions have occurred due to this (documented by Retraction Watch).

08 Dec 2025

In research publication ethics, creating a data that never existed

A Falsification

B Fabrication

C Salami slicing

D Redundant publication

✓Answer:(B) Fabrication

Fabrication = making up data, results, or events. It is one of the three major forms of research misconduct recognized by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and COPE.

07 Dec 2025

A journal published 150 documents during 2021–2024 and received 450 citations to those documents by 2024. Its 2024 CiteScore will be:

A 1.0

B 2.0

C 3.0

D 4.5

✓Answer:(D) 3.0

450 ÷ 150 = 3.0 It is a citations received to documents published in the last 4 years ÷ All documents published in last 4 years

06 Dec 2025

Claude Shannon is known as the father of which field?

A Thermodynamics

B Cataloguing

C Bibliometrics

D Information Theory

✓Answer:(D) Information Theory

Shannon introduced the mathematical framework for measuring and transmitting information.

05 Dec 2025

In Information Theory, “entropy” mainly refers to:

A The physical heat of a system

B The number of books in a library

C The uncertainty or information content in a message

D The noise level in a library

✓Answer:(C) The uncertainty or information content in a message

Shannon used entropy to measure how much information is contained in a message or signal. Shannon, in 1948, introduced a deeply related notion: “information entropy.” In his information-theory framework, entropy quantifies the amount of information (or uncertainty) in a message or information source.

04 Dec 2025

Which of the following BEST distinguishes CiteScore from Journal Impact Factor?

A CiteScore is updated in real-time

B CiteScore uses a 5-year citation window

C CiteScore excludes conference papers

D CiteScore uses selective citable items

✓Answer:(A) CiteScore is updated in real-time

CiteScore has an ongoing CiteScore Tracker, while JIF does not. It is Updated annually, but a running CiteScore Tracker shows monthly updates.

03 Dec 2025

CiteScore uses which exact formula?

A Citations in a year ÷ Documents in the previous year

B Citations received to documents published in the last 3 years ÷ Number of citable items