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That's what I do. If I want to say something obvious, I Google for the first citation which says that thing in a way which is readable, understandable, and corr
by wegs 6y ago
That's what I do. If I want to say something obvious, I Google for the first citation which says that thing in a way which is readable, understandable, and correct.
Honestly, the problem isn't with whom I cite, so much as:
1) Academia deciding to use metrics inappropriately (as well as expecting citations on well-known obvious things). I'm not going to adjust my work style because academics decided to adopt dumb metrics and build massive, dumb incentive structures around those metrics.
2) Reviewers expecting citations for everything, and not caring about quality of those citations. "The sky is blue" doesn't work. "The sky is blue (Blitzerman, Tinkledorf 2012)" works fine, even if Blitzerman, Tinkledorf 2012 is complete nonsense.
- cycomanic 6y agoActually, it's not the academics who have adopted (or pushed) these metrics. They essentially came with the general trend of trying to make everything measurable (usually pushed by MBAs).
- Tainnor 6y agoNo, you got that wrong. The way you do it is: "As previous research indicates, the sky is blue ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9])." Of course you haven't actually looked at all those 9 sources, except maybe the abstract of the first three.