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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — mentioned by eegilbert

Mon, 26 May 2014 12:53:42 GMT

An experiment that did just that a few years ago: "Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting" by Delgado Lopez-Cozar, et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0638 [edit: grammar]

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — HN submission

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:42:21 GMT

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — mentioned by spindritf

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:22:38 GMT

> In the scientific world there are no spammers and there is no direct commercial advantage to creating a lot of nonsense paper that cite your own paper Yet. Google's on it though. >> The launch of Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics may provoke a revolution in the research evaluation field as it places within every researchers reach tools that allow bibliometric measuring. In order to alert the research community over how easily one can manipulate the data and bibliometric indicators offered by Google s products we present an experiment in which we manipulate the Google…

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — mentioned by spindritf

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:41:02 GMT

The paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0638 EDIT: Originally I submitted this write-up http://www.roughtype.com/?p=2841 by Nicholas Carr. It must have been later changed (by the mods?) to a direct link to the arxiv paper.

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — HN submission

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:40:47 GMT

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics [pdf]

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — HN submission

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:35:24 GMT

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Metrics: simple, easy and tempting

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting — HN submission

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:31:53 GMT

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Metrics: simple, easy and tempting

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