• @MBM
    6•9 months ago

    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.

    • SalamanderOPM
      5•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!!