Hacking Google Scholar

Finally, we enjoyed (but were dismayed by) the account given on Reese Richardson's blog about how Google Scholar can be "hacked".  Phony papers are uploaded onto ResearchGate, to boost citations to one's own (possibly equally fraudulent) papers.  There are companies offering to carry out such a citation-boosting campaign for paying customers, but Richardson shows how easily one can do it oneself.  However after he wrote about it, Google Scholar removed the fraudulent citations to the work of "Larry Richardson" (a cat), without necessarily implementing a global solution to the problem.