“…Rigorous efforts of the research community in recent years have created a general awareness about the common citation malpractices at least. Some of the important papers include Franck (1999), Krell (2010), Lynch (2012), Wilhite and Fong (2012), Van Noorden (2013), Heneberg (2014), Chorus and Waltman (2016), Heneberg (2016), Fister Jr et al (2016), Fong and Wilhite (2017), Bai et al (2016), Racz and Marković (2018), Chakraborty et al (2018), Wang et al (2019), Pradhan et al, 2019 and blog posts, reports and news include Tho (2009), Mongeon et al (2016), Arnold (2009), Martin (2013), Davis (2012), Oransky and Marcus (2017). However, in this paper, we define a generalized feature set (or rules) that can approximately identify the outlier class.…”