Academic search engine spam and Google Scholar's resilience against it

Journal of Electronic Publishing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Beel, Joeran ^a,b   Gipp, Bela ^b  

^a OvGU Magdeburg ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic search engine spam; Academic search engines; Citation spam; Google Scholar; Search engines; Spamdexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650444491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10802711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0013.305     Document Type: Article

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