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Stephen Royle on Nostr: RE: For anyone interested, this hack involves uploading self-referencing content to ...

RE: https://biologists.social/@steveroyle/116679169030242246

For anyone interested, this hack involves uploading self-referencing content to OSF. I pointed this out to OSF and they said that while it's against the spirit of their platform it doesn't break their T&Cs so they will take no further action.

So, if you too want an impressive/ridiculous but meaningless GS page, this is a consequence-free way to do it.
This google scholar page is literally unbelievable. 5.4 M citations, H-index of 1867. Looks to be entirely/mostly driven by self-citation to machine generated content. Impressive hack!

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=fm3iBmgAAAAJ

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