From: Ralf Jung Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:42:42 +0000 (+0100) Subject: remove a probably confusing remark X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/commitdiff_plain/197edd871ea671254812e6853956ea7e495f4b8b?ds=sidebyside remove a probably confusing remark --- diff --git a/personal/_posts/2018-12-12-google-scholar.md b/personal/_posts/2018-12-12-google-scholar.md index 60055b7..79100be 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2018-12-12-google-scholar.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2018-12-12-google-scholar.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This is not restricted to Google, of course: I have heard of lectures at my univ I think it is immoral to force people to create accounts in their private name and make them give away their private data. Creating an account with Google or Facebook is signing a contract (and one full of dubious data-sharing clauses at that), and I am not entering that contract out of my own free will. -(This is very different from accounts I had when working for Mozilla, which were part of a contract between Mozilla and the third party and where I did not have to create an account as a private person. Also, Mozilla actually makes a point of negotiating reasonable data protection clauses for such cases, something I as an individual cannot hope to achieve.) +Sure, I *could* refuse -- but at which cost? So, as one tiny of many necessary steps, can we avoid using Google Scholar for making hiring decisions? There are other platforms that perform citation analysis, for example [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Ralf-Jung/16346001).