If there's a more appropriate list for this sort of question, please
let me know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated with the following: I've removed
some pages from Google and Google Scholar via the remove function in
Webmaster Tools and all seems to work, the pages are removed. The only
problem is that in Google Scholar there remains a citation record for
each page that was removed, i.e.
> If there's a more appropriate list for this sort of question, please
> let me know.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated with the following: I've removed
> some pages from Google and Google Scholar via the remove function in
> Webmaster Tools and all seems to work, the pages are removed. The only
> problem is that in Google Scholar there remains a citation record for
> each page that was removed, i.e.
> > If there's a more appropriate list for this sort of question, please
> > let me know.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated with the following: I've removed
> > some pages from Google and Google Scholar via the remove function in
> > Webmaster Tools and all seems to work, the pages are removed. The only
> > problem is that in Google Scholar there remains a citation record for
> > each page that was removed, i.e.
The short answer is that you can't remove citations. I asked around
about this and here's what I learned:
In Google Scholar, a citation is generated basically whenever we learn
that a particular item (book, article, etc.) exists. As soon as we
learn that "Book A" exists--and we may learn of it because we find a
link to it, because some other work cites it, or through some other
means--we generate a citation for it. The citation doesn't necessarily
link to Book A, or provide anything more than a title and author name
(although it may); it just indicates that Book A exists, or existed,
somewhere in the world. It also doesn't necessarily link to works that
reference Book A, or provide any web results, because just because we
know a work exists doesn't mean we have any references or web results
for it.
So, if one of your articles gets indexed, even if you remove that URL
from our search results (so that we no longer link to your article),
we'll still have a citation reference for it because our knowledge
that it exists (or existed) somewhere doesn't cease, regardless of
whether that particular work is in our index.
