Automated promotion

Olivier Cappé pointed out to me this reference where Cyril Labbé explains how to achieve a high ranking on Google Scholar with (fake) automatically generated papers… Of course, the ranking does not stand any close examination but nonetheless…

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  1. […] Nothing very informative, just pointing out the shortcomings of the h-index. And explaining how Ike Antkare got his Ensteinian ranking without publishing a single paper. The most notable points were a debate […]

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