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Do you trust Google Scholar?

Are you using Google Scholar? For finding scientific literature? For obtaining citation counts and publication lists of researchers? Have you ever thought about how trustworthy the information is you get on Google Scholar? My colleague and I performed several tests with Google Scholar and found out that it is really easy to fool Google Scholar. [...]

New Paper: On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam

Update: The final article is published. [intlink id=”do-you-trust-google-scholar” type=”post”]Please read here.[/intlink] I am currently in Toronto presenting our new paper titled “On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam” at Hypertext 2010. The paper is about some experiments we did on Google Scholar to find out how reliable their citation data etc. is. [...]

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