Using Guttenberg’s doctoral thesis to test plagiarism detection systems

Professor Debora Weber-Wulff and her team from the HTW Berlin have tested various plagiarism detection systems. Instead of using an artificially created test data set, Guttenberg’s doctoral thesis was used. The detection results of the Plagiarism Detection Systems were, as expected, pretty poor.

PlagAware: Initially 28% on the first 159 pages, however this included a . . . → Read More: Using Guttenberg’s doctoral thesis to test plagiarism detection systems

New publication: Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it

In a previous paper we provided guidelines for scholars on optimizing research articles for academic search engines such as Google Scholar. Feedback in the academic community to these guidelines was diverse. Some were concerned researchers could use our guidelines to manipulate rankings of scientific articles and promote what we call ‘academic search engine spam’. To . . . → Read More: New publication: Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it

New Paper: On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam

I am currently in Toronto presenting our new paper titled “On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam” at Hypertext 2010. The paper is about some experiments we did on Google Scholar to find out how reliable their citation data etc. is. The paper soon will be downloadable on our publication page but for now . . . → Read More: New Paper: On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam

Academic Search Engine Optimization: What others think about it

In January we published our article about [intlink id="22" type="post"]Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO)[/intlink]. As expected, feedback varied strongly. Here are some of the opinions on ASEO:

Search engine optimization (SEO) has a golden age in this internet era, but to use it in academic research, it sounds quite strange for me. After reading this . . . → Read More: Academic Search Engine Optimization: What others think about it

Academic Search Engine Optimization – make your articles better findable

The Journal of Scholarly Publishing just published our article Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar and Co. The article introduces and discusses the concept of what we call “academic search engine optimization” (ASEO) and define as: “Academic search engine optimization is the creation, publication, and modification of scholarly literature in . . . → Read More: Academic Search Engine Optimization – make your articles better findable