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