Because if you don't give credit to the other people in the field, you are less likely to get through peer review, and people will constantly suggest that you r

Because if you don't give credit to the other people in the field, you are less likely to get through peer review, and people will constantly suggest that you read their work -- even though you already have. You prove that you are one of the group by namedropping, citing lots of other papers, and using the same jargon everyone else does.