Carl T. Bergstrom on Nostr: Google Scholar is a flaming piece of shit. Why do we use it for scholarly evaluation? ...

Google Scholar is a flaming piece of shit. Why do we use it for scholarly evaluation?

Here, it misattributes 4873 citations — a decent count for entire research career — from Keeling and Rohani's landmark book, giving them instead to the authors who wrote a book review of the book.

Yet, there's no correction or appeal process.