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by eesmith 2720 days ago
From the article, "It was a “phantom reference” that had been created merely to illustrate Elsevier’s desired reference format." and "nearly 90% of the citations were for conference proceedings papers, and nearly two-thirds of these appeared in Procedia conference volumes, which are published by Elsevier."

Thus, it is unlikely to be due to predatory publishing.