In answer to Tomas
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 7:17 PM Tomas Garcia Ferrari <
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> Months ago, I received an article critiquing the practice of
> self-citations, particularly used to increase researchers' numbers.
>
Every reputable citation service does not count self-citations. Hence the
common practice of piggy-back citations: I will cite your papers if you
promise to cite mine.
More to the point, the number of citations is a truly bad representation of
anything. What matters is the impact of the paper, but that can take a
decade or even more to determine. It is like stock market figures.
Executives are rewarded for r quarterly earnings, even if they are obtained
in ways that hurt the company (and customers, employees, etc). The real
reward ought to be for long-term gains.
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On another point. Most of us believe strongly in doing our best to give
credit to the originator of an idea or concept. Which means tracking things
down through the centuries. Reliance on recent literature does not give
credit to the original sources. (And today, many of the older sources have
been digitized, so it is no longer an excuse to say that if it is not on
the internet, it doesn't exist).
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One further point. I train my students to read the papers they cite. It is
amazing to see authors cite papers in support of their argument, even where
the paper they cite is actually providing evidence against their
statement. Read the damn paper. (RTFP is the publication version of the
complaint that people don't read manuals: RTFM (the F word is what people
really say. I bet you will find it easy to figure out what word (F)
replaces the D word)
Don
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