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Do you have any good examples, historical or otherwise?
by guntars 7y ago
Do you have any good examples, historical or otherwise?
- pkaye 7y agoPossibly Barry Marshall and Robin Warren who discovered H Pylori causes peptic ulcers and subsequently won a Nobel Prize. They were ridiculed by doctors and scientists for their theory.
- jacquesm 7y agoI can see them citing themselves once or twice but not 10's of times or more.
- ummonk 7y agoI was going to suggest Peter Turchin as an outsider to history / sociology but he seems to have been able to get published in highly reputable journals http://peterturchin.com/academic-publications/#Articles_in_Nature_Science_and_PNAS http://peterturchin.com/academic-publications/#Articles_in_N...
- ratmice 7y agoBetween the two authors here (McKinsey and Tarski), they cite each other 7 times, with 14 citations, giving 50% outgoing self-citation, however this paper also received incoming citations contemporaneously... https://doi.org/10.2307/2268135 https://doi.org/10.2307/2268135
- your-nanny 7y agopossibly Sutton and Barto's work on reinforcement learning throughout the 80s.
- justinmeiners 7y agoDijkstra rarely cited others and wrote entire books without citations.