I personally don't think this is a good approach, we should just make the scientific article rank lower for a bit as a start.

It's definitely possible to deboost them (at least those the same way we do for disambig pages (maybe not the same value, we can tweak it). I am not sure what process should be here - @Lydia_Pintscher maybe you have an idea? Should I put a note in project chat and if no objections just put it in the config?
Probably won't happen until January anyway - we're in "no deloys for holidays" zone, but we could roll out config change in January when everybody's back.

Yeah that seems like a good way forward.

Scientific articles are one class of entities where this problem exists and given that they have more words in the title and we have >10 million of them they are the most important. In the past with the old search I however remember similar issues with songs and geonames derived geographic items as well.
If we would import those 2 million German companies, they would likely also produce a lot of hits.

I'm okay, with fixing it by deranking scientific articles specifically but I would expect that even if we derank any class of entries that are problematic at the moment sooner or later we will add a new big dataset by bot that brings up search results that would be better to not outrank human created items.