{"id":5545,"date":"2010-12-22T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2010-12-22T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:46:21","slug":"spamming-google-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2010\/12\/22\/spamming-google-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Spamming Google Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spamming Google Scholar.  Very possible, or so it seems&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;we conducted several tests on Google Scholar. The results show that academic search engine spam is indeed &#8211; and with little effort &#8211; possible: We increased rankings of academic articles on Google Scholar by manipulating their citation counts; Google Scholar indexed invisible text we added to some articles, making papers appear for keyword searches the articles were not relevant for; Google Scholar indexed some nonsensical articles we randomly created with the paper generator SciGen; and Google Scholar linked to manipulated versions of research papers that contained a Viagra advertisement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beel, J. (2010)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0013.305\">Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar&#8217;s Resilience Against it<\/a>.<br \/><em>Journal of Electronic Publishing<\/em> 13 (3), December 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spamming Google Scholar. Very possible, or so it seems&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;we conducted several tests on Google Scholar. The results show that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2010\/12\/22\/spamming-google-scholar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurns-google-watch","category-ooops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}