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I have two papers published at the same IEEE conference (at the same year).

Since they have been indexed in GS, they are being merged every few days. That is, I manually need to "unmerge" them, just for GS to automatically merge them again a few days later.

I'm not sure why this happens. They have completely different names. Perhaps the reason is that IEEE has page numbers of 1-9 for all papers that year (i.e., they didn't actually allocate page numbers but just had 1-9 for all).

How can I make GS stop merging these papers?

PhD student
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  • What makes all these people think that this website is google scholar support central? –  Feb 13 '18 at 08:10
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    @NajibIdrissi - not a support center, but a forum with many people that are using GS and may have encountered this before. (be sure that I did try to search that before asking here). – PhD student Feb 13 '18 at 08:16
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    That seems like a bad idea for IEEE to do the page numbers like that. Evidently Google is assuming, not unreasonably, that (journal, volume, issue, page number) will uniquely identity a single paper, and I would guess that a lot of other systems make the same assumption. – Nate Eldredge Feb 13 '18 at 16:18
  • Complain at your conference - this is really bad practice! – OBu Feb 18 '18 at 17:25

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[Update: Multiple users have reported that this doesn't work.]

  1. Go to your Google Scholar profile and bring up the add article dropdown, click on "Configure article updates": Google scholar add article dropdown menu
  2. Select the radio button for "Don't automatically update my profile" and click the "Update settings" button: Google scholar configure article updates page
  3. When Scholar wants to merge your papers, instead of going ahead it will send an email to ask if that is the correct course of action.
Wandering Chemist
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    I tried that. They are still merged automatically :(. – PhD student Feb 13 '18 at 12:12
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    Oh. Then that seems to be a bug (or, at least, functionality that is otherwise than the user would expect) that should be reported. But Google Scholar doesn't seem to have a bug report page. – Wandering Chemist Feb 15 '18 at 17:01
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I don't believe there is anything that can be done. I too have this same problem, except in my case GS wants to merge two similar titles (even though they have different years). Repeatedly unmerge these two articles, a couple of days later GS merges them back.

Turning off auto-updates does not affect this behavior.

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