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Google Scholar is manipulatable (arxiv.org)
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[โ€“] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm kind of curious why they're singling out Google Scholar, because it sounds like bought citations would show up anywhere.

Edit: it's because Google Scholar automatically counts any citation (including preprints) and even papers that no longer exist.

[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

Oh... Wow!

I recently noticed that one of my blog posts sneaked into the results of Google Scholar.

Now that you mentioned this, I checked whether my blog post shows up in the papers that I cited... And it does. It is being counted as a citation.

I guess I have accidentally stumbled into the recipe to fool Google Scholar. Crazy.

Thanks for pointing that out!!