It's certainly annoying that you have to resort to this kind of scraping, which may also violate Google's TOS. I hope someone would build a fully community-based, free, OA, search engine with some reliability guarantees. At the moment, all the commercial (Scopus, etc.) and open (Semantic Scholar, etc.) alternatives are poor.
That said, the fake-issue is a big problem with Google Scholar. You have a lot of people adding other people's papers into their profiles. And then you have the usual fake profiles, fake institutions, fake conferences, citation mills, predatory journals, hijacked accounts, hijacked journals, etc. etc.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.1 ms ] threadThat said, the fake-issue is a big problem with Google Scholar. You have a lot of people adding other people's papers into their profiles. And then you have the usual fake profiles, fake institutions, fake conferences, citation mills, predatory journals, hijacked accounts, hijacked journals, etc. etc.