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    There being a great diversity of colleges and universities in the US, please pick one of the following institutions (all in Michigan) that your new institution best resembles: Alma College, Cornerstone University, Kalamazoo College, Michigan Technological University, Saginaw Valley State University, University of Michigan, Western Michigan University. Commented 2 days ago
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    Dozens of time a day? Does GS even update profiles half as often? Commented 2 days ago
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    You might consider a browser add-on to block or delay that single webpage: DelayWebpage on Firefox or Delay on Chrome for instance. You set it up so that whenever you try to access a specific URL, it is delayed for (say) 30 seconds before it shows up. In my experience, that is enough to lose the habit of visiting a page too often. It has no impact on other URLs. Commented 2 days ago
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    I suspect that deleting or blocking one page would simply lead to you obsessively checking something else (perhaps Academia StackExchange?) -- at least that's how my brain tends to work. In other words, I don't think your approach will actually fix the underlying issue of lack of focus. (That said, I sympathize -- I think many of us have these sorts of issues.) Commented 2 days ago
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    You can probably get google scholar to mail you when you receive a new citation. Then you know the update automatically, and you also know that there is no point in checking, since scholar will tell you the same detail anyway. Does that work? Commented 2 days ago