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>It's not that nobody knows how to cite it, it's that nobody wants to cite things from outside of academia, perhaps because it lowers their own perceived presti
by presscast 8y ago
>It's not that nobody knows how to cite it, it's that nobody wants to cite things from outside of academia, perhaps because it lowers their own perceived prestige.
What makes you say this? Citing anybody does little to increase your personal prestige. I think the issue has more to do with 4chan not being peer-reviewed, and the proof being so recent that few papers have yet been written.
On the contrary, citing a hot new thing is what academics do best.
- caconym_ 8y agoSomebody pointed out in the Twitter thread that academics often cite unreviewed papers on arXiv. If true (cannot confirm it myself, not in academia) then the peer-review-as-a-prerequisite-for-citation thing doesn't really hold water.
- laretluval 8y agoIt depends on the field. In fast moving fields like machine learning it is common to cite unreviewed stuff on arXiv. In slower fields it is less common/accepted.
- ISL 8y agoPeer review is no prerequisite for citation. The first paper I looked at for an example (at the top of today's "Recent" papers in PRD), cites three arXiv entries, out of 91 references. https://journals.aps.org/prd/references/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.074023 https://journals.aps.org/prd/references/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.... Successful peer review in an upstanding journal is a signal of relative reliability and importance, but it is not the arbiter of usefulness.
- sgc 8y agoExactly. If I am sure of myself, I will cite anyone with information pertinent to my work. I am their peer and just reviewed it.