TY - GEN
T1 - H-index manipulation by undoing merges
AU - Van Bevern, René
AU - Komusiewicz, Christian
AU - Molter, Hendrik
AU - Niedermeier, Rolf
AU - Sorge, Manuel
AU - Walsh, Toby
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Authors and IOS Press.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The h-index is an important bibliographic measure used to assess the performance of researchers. Van Bevern et al. [Artif. Intel., to appear] showed that, despite computational worst-case hardness results, substantial manipulation of the h-index of Google Scholar author profiles is possible by merging articles. Complementing this work, we study the opposite operation, the splitting of articles, which is arguably the more natural operation for manipulation and which is also allowed within Google Scholar. 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 easily achievable.
AB - The h-index is an important bibliographic measure used to assess the performance of researchers. Van Bevern et al. [Artif. Intel., to appear] showed that, despite computational worst-case hardness results, substantial manipulation of the h-index of Google Scholar author profiles is possible by merging articles. Complementing this work, we study the opposite operation, the splitting of articles, which is arguably the more natural operation for manipulation and which is also allowed within Google Scholar. 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 easily achievable.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85013073044&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-895
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-895
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85013073044
T3 - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
SP - 895
EP - 903
BT - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
A2 - Kaminka, Gal A.
A2 - Fox, Maria
A2 - Bouquet, Paolo
A2 - Hullermeier, Eyke
A2 - Dignum, Virginia
A2 - Dignum, Frank
A2 - van Harmelen, Frank
PB - IOS Press BV
T2 - 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2016
Y2 - 29 August 2016 through 2 September 2016
ER -