On the robustness of google scholar against spam

Authors:
Jöran Beel;Bela Gipp
Affiliations:
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA & OvGU, Magdeburg, Germany;University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA & OvGU, Magdeburg, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this research-in-progress paper we present the current results of several experiments in which we analyzed whether spamming Google Scholar is possible. Our results show, it is possible: We 'improved' the ranking of articles by manipulating their citation counts and we made articles appear in searchers for keywords the articles did not originally contained by placing invisible text in modified versions of the article.