He talks a lot about these medals, and even mentions it in his biography section in his books. My bet is that he earned many by being the only person in his category to turn up at tournaments.
Curious how he advanced to a black belt in such short time while simultaneously churning out absurd amounts of "scholarly" works even before the existence of ChatGPT.
While also writing high-brow fictional works like "Just Following Orders: Iraqi Girl Trilogy Book 2“ (book two of the two-book trilogy) or his German translation of „Justifiable Homicide“ marked by readers on Amazon as „having quality problems“ and „spelling mistakes“
Almost every chapter in the "book"--which has a grand total of 132 chapters--starts with (roughly?) the same introduction, citing a bunch of his own works.
Because Google Scholar indexes the chapters individually, this single book counts as hundreds, if not more than a thousand, citations for him.
At least two of the chapters' co-"authors" also end up with nice boosts to their citations as their past writings with Robert W. McGee are among the cited works.
I don't think it is, no. Somehow, he has completed several PhDs. I was skeptical about the veracity of his Wikipedia page, but upon further inspection it turned out some of these universities do indeed pride themselves as being his alma mater.
I like that. It’s also very much poisoning the academic well. It makes academia as a whole look worse to have these horrible papers out there and available for people to say “look, there’s papers that agree with me”.
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( https://www.robertwmcgee.com )
...almost all of which are self-citations.
Because Google Scholar indexes the chapters individually, this single book counts as hundreds, if not more than a thousand, citations for him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McGee
I'm sorry but I can't help but read his name as right wing McGee