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I notice this sometimes also in academic papers. I would like to see a date but it is not usually presented. Is this for similar reason?
by jzer0cool 5y ago
I notice this sometimes also in academic papers. I would like to see a date but it is not usually presented. Is this for similar reason?
- sebastianconcpt 5y agoIn academic content, the lack of date is the most pernicious!
- pjc50 5y agoThat seems surprising - many citation formats involve the date?
- KineticLensman 5y agoThe problem is the downloaded pages of the papers themselves, which often completely lack proper bibliographic data (or even header/footer info other than a page number). Compare this with a page from a corporate tech report, where each page might have the title and document number somewhere.
- marcosdumay 5y agoThey used to come in magazines, with the date on the front, and authorship metadata on the index. Nowadays they come as individual papers, but the publishers kept the format... because, why change anything when you have guaranteed profits?
- kristjansson 5y agoDepending on the source, it might not be published yet, or the PDF you grabbed might be a pre-print while the 'officially' published article is behind a journal paywall. Generally, I take the publication dates of the cited works as representative of the age of the paper.