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H-index manipulation by undoing merges. / van Bevern, René; Komusiewicz, Christian; Molter, Hendrik et al.

In: Quantitative Science Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4, 01.12.2020, p. 1529-1552.

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van Bevern, R, Komusiewicz, C, Molter, H, Niedermeier, R, Sorge, M & Walsh, T 2020, 'H-index manipulation by undoing merges', Quantitative Science Studies, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 1529-1552. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00093

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van Bevern, R., Komusiewicz, C., Molter, H., Niedermeier, R., Sorge, M., & Walsh, T. (2020). H-index manipulation by undoing merges. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(4), 1529-1552. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00093

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van Bevern R, Komusiewicz C, Molter H, Niedermeier R, Sorge M, Walsh T. H-index manipulation by undoing merges. Quantitative Science Studies. 2020 Dec 1;1(4):1529-1552. doi: 10.1162/qss_a_00093

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van Bevern, René ; Komusiewicz, Christian ; Molter, Hendrik et al. / H-index manipulation by undoing merges. In: Quantitative Science Studies. 2020 ; Vol. 1, No. 4. pp. 1529-1552.

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abstract = "The h-index is an important bibliographic measure used to assess the performance of researchers. Dutiful researchers merge different versions of their articles in their Google Scholar profile even though this can decrease their h-index. In this article, we study the manipulation of the h-index by undoing such merges. In contrast to manipulation by merging articles, such manipulation is harder to detect. We present numerous results on computational complexity (from linear-time algorithms to parameterized computational hardness results) and empirically indicate that at least small improvements of the h-index by splitting merged articles are unfortunately easily achievable.",
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note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Fund of TU Berlin. Ren{\'e} van Bevern was supported by Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, agreement No. 075-15-2019-1675 with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Hendrik Molter was supported by the DFG, projects DAPA (NI 369/12) and MATE (NI 369/17). Manuel Sorge was supported by the DFG, project DAPA (NI 369/12), by the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union{\textquoteright}s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement number 631163.11, the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 551145/14), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 714704. Toby Walsh was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 670077. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Ren{\'e} van Bevern, Christian Komusiewicz, Hendrik Molter, Rolf Niedermeier, Manuel Sorge, and Toby Walsh.",
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