As the code is similar, they can be merged together.

I'll suggest you to break down the functions into smaller reusable chunks which will follow the [Single Responsible Principle(SRP)][1]. These functions will be testable and reusable.

Both functions are

 1. Adding a delay of 500 milliseconds
 2. Selecting elements from provided page
 3. Clicking the first element from the collection
 4. Finding an element from it's ancestor and returning the `innerText` of it.

As, these are the steps, we can similarly divide those functions into smaller functions each doing the task in each step above.

For first step-to add delay, I've not created a new function as I guess that is already created in utils module.


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The first function(Step #2) will select the elements from the page using the provided `xpath` and return the first of them.

    function getFirstVisiblePublication(page, xpath) {
        aqUtils.Delay(500);

        var elements = page.EvaluateXpath(xpath);
        return elements[0];
    }

The second function(Step #3 & #4), again as #3 only require to click the element I haven't created new function.

The below function will accept the `page` in which the target element is to be searched and `xpath` of the element. This will call the above function to get the first element and click it.

This function will return the text/label of the anchor element which is get by using the first element's ancestors.


    function getFirstVisiblePublicationAnchorLabel(page, xpath) {
        // Get first element
        var firstElement = getFirstVisiblePublication(page, xpath);
        firstElement.Click();

        return firstElement.parent.parent.FindChildByXPath('//a').textContent;
    }

**Usage:**

Function can be called as follow:

    var hideButtonXpath = "//img[@title='To hide this item in your profile, mark it as invisible']";
    var publicationTitle = getFirstVisiblePublicationAnchorLabel(PageObj, hideButtonXpath);


  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle