[D] Stunning academic dishonesty -- gained 1000 citation for adding 5 lines of code?? Fraudulent??

**TL;DR**

Question: is it true that you can greatly increase your citation number by: (1) contribute 1 line of trivial code change to a famous and highly cited github repo; (2) include that github repo into your Google scholar profile.

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I came across this Google Scholar profile: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IaDc0OcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IaDc0OcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). This person, Lijun Yu, is currently a CMU PhD student and a student researcher at Google.

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[Google Scholar profile of Lijun Yu](https://preview.redd.it/s141uhfw9otb1.png?width=2520&format=png&auto=webp&s=62b8c3719c776ca125327a5d83864de321f6730d)

It quite contradicts my …

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