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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. George Musser‏Verified account @gmusser 7 Sep 2019
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      Google Scholar seems to be altering scholarly citation patterns. Citations are getting more concentrated: the same few papers get cited over and over, @jevinwest has found. People lazily cite whatever papers the search engine ranks highly. #metascience2019pic.twitter.com/OPpmVn9MqB

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    2. Matthew Skala  😷‏ @mattskala 7 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @gmusser @Meaningness @jevinwest

      Is Google Scholar just doing what journal editors used to do in terms of filtering and selection? That's not to say it is good; but I think the advent of search engines isn't the only relevant major change in the world of academic publication over the last couple decades.

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    3. Gareth Stack‏ @garethstack 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @mattskala @gmusser and

      Quite obviously not. There's no actual selection taking place, at least not one that involves any comprension of content. With obvious ramifications for 'seo' of papers.

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    4. Matthew Skala  😷‏ @mattskala 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @garethstack @gmusser and

      Seems like by "actual" selection you must mean *human* selection, because there clearly is selection done by Google's ranking algorithm, and it involves analysis of content. Scientists have optimized papers to game journal criteria forever; computerization doesn't make that new.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @mattskala @garethstack and

      The possibility of taking “seo” literally here, and applying the usual tricks, opens up new vistas of horror. End game, massively-cited journal papers no human has read, written by bots for citation by bots. Efficiently hasten the heat death of academia. #metascience2019

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        2. ♪ ominous music ♪‏ @mangosity 8 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @mattskala and

          I'm imagining the bots similarly taking over social media and then eventually all other human endeavor, and in the process rendering everything meaningless (to us, at least). Or has it already?

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        3. Jesse Woellhof‏ @woellhof 8 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @mangosity @Meaningness and

          The heat death of telephone usage in the United States due to spam abuse seems to suggest these effects are self-isolating

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        2. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 8 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @mattskala and

          Google Scholar does not select papers for inclusion. If a paper has the right structure(title, authors, abstract), bibliographic metadata, and is web-accessible, GS will index it. @scopus does have scholarly selection criteria https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/how-scopus-works/content …

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        3. Matthew Skala  😷‏ @mattskala 8 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @mrgunn @Meaningness and

          Ranking has an effect very similar to selection.

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        2. Matthew Skala  😷‏ @mattskala 8 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @garethstack and

          I see this happening anyway through the abdication of publishers' responsibility and the lowered barriers to becoming a publisher; online junk journals and no real editing even in formerly good journals. The Net is part of that, but Google Scholar in particular isn't a big part.

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        3. Matthew Skala  😷‏ @mattskala 8 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @mattskala @Meaningness and

          E.g. a paper I sent to an Elsevier journal a few years ago came back with "copyedits" at the final proof stage that would've changed grammatical sentences into gibberish; I'm sure they came from an automated system, not a human, and that wouldn't have happend 20 years earlier.

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        1. Ms Anne Thrope‏ @everydayangst1 9 Sep 2019
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          There is an easy fix. Just add one of those “I’m not a robot” boxes.

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