h-Index Manipulation by Undoing Merges

DOI10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-895MaRDI QIDQ4576225zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors René van Bevern, Christian Komusiwicz, Hendrik Molter, Rolf Niedermeier, Manuel Sorge, Toby Walsh

Publication date 12 July 2018

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04827

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bibliographic studies (01A90) Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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 (van Bevern et al. [Artif. Intel. 240:19-35, 2016]) 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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