{"id":19812,"date":"2022-04-09T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2022-04-09T19:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:08:26","slug":"how-to-game-google-scholar-h-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/04\/how-to-game-google-scholar-h-index\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Game Google Scholar H Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1212.0638\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1212.0638<\/a> explains an experiment leading to an increase of 774 citations in 129 papers <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2012\/12\/12\/gaming-google-scholar-citations-made-simple-and-easy\/\">basically as they<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>created a fake researcher (Marco Alberto Pantani-Contador \u2014 a reference to two infamous cyclists, Marco Pantani and Alberto Contador, each of whom was accused of blood doping). Copying and pasting text from a website, adding a few figures and graphs and lots and lots of self-citations &#8230; created six fake documents, translated them into English using Google Translate, and uploaded them to a new webpage under their university\u2019s domain. It was a process, the authors explain, that took less than half a day\u2019s work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 22.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1212.0638 explains an experiment leading to an increase of 774 citations in 129 papers basically as they created a fake researcher (Marco Alberto Pantani-Contador \u2014 a reference to two infamous cyclists, Marco Pantani and Alberto Contador, each of whom was accused of blood doping). Copying and pasting text from a website, adding a few figures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/04\/how-to-game-google-scholar-h-index\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Game Google Scholar H Index<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1644,218],"class_list":["post-19812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-fraud","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}