Abstract
With Google Scholar, scientists can maintain their publications on personal prole pages,
while the citations to these works are automatically collected and counted. Maintenance of
publications is done manually by the researcher herself, and involves deleting erroneous ones,
merging ones that are the same but which were not recognized as the same, adding forgotten
co-authors, and correcting titles of papers and venues. The publications are presented on
pages with 20 or 100 papers in the web page interface from 2012{2014.1 The interface does
not allow a scientist to merge two version of a paper if they appear on dierent pages. This not
only implies that a scientist who wants to merge certain subsets of publications will sometimes
be unable to do so, but also, we show in this note that the decision problem to determine if
it is possible to merge given subsets of papers is NP-complete.
while the citations to these works are automatically collected and counted. Maintenance of
publications is done manually by the researcher herself, and involves deleting erroneous ones,
merging ones that are the same but which were not recognized as the same, adding forgotten
co-authors, and correcting titles of papers and venues. The publications are presented on
pages with 20 or 100 papers in the web page interface from 2012{2014.1 The interface does
not allow a scientist to merge two version of a paper if they appear on dierent pages. This not
only implies that a scientist who wants to merge certain subsets of publications will sometimes
be unable to do so, but also, we show in this note that the decision problem to determine if
it is possible to merge given subsets of papers is NP-complete.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | CoRR |
| Volume | abs/1410.3820 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |