> Google Scholar Effect: Scientific research depends on citing other research, and the research that gets cited the most is whatever shows up in the top results

> Google Scholar Effect: Scientific research depends on citing other research, and the research that gets cited the most is whatever shows up in the top results of Google Scholar searches, regardless of its contribution to the field. As a scientist, to me, this is extremely dangerous. We don't know what the Google Scholar search algorithm exactly is. But it does put highly cited papers on top, meaning those papers get cited more in the future. I see this as preventing alternate lines of investigation in a subfield not being successful as much.