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Requiring citation is not counteracting "open science", in fact most of the "open science" movements _require_ citations, e.g. if you use an open dataset, you h
by AshamedCaptain 5y ago
Requiring citation is not counteracting "open science", in fact most of the "open science" movements _require_ citations, e.g. if you use an open dataset, you have to cite it.
I really don't get the point the article is trying to make. Copying other's ideas and introductions and methods is practically a core tenet of science and every paper out there does it. No one is discouraging you from copying anyone else's articles (publishers would be another topic), they're just asking for a citation. Is a citation so hard ?
If you claim that requiring citations is not "open" then practically no software license is "open".
- mannykannot 5y ago> I really don't get the point the article is trying to make. It is essentially in agreement with your position here.
- LanceH 5y agoI think the article is making a point through hyperbole. Citations have become a scoreboard on the back end. On the front end they've become more important than the content itself. A bad citation is viewed as some sort of academic crime. Bad content -- if actually judged -- is largely ignored. Perhaps I'm just scarred from my student days when I put a superscript at the end of the wrong sentence, which left the following sentence uncited gasp. A big deal was made of this that I was plagiarizing the material. They were also upset that I wasn't visibly concerned enough about this high crime and that I only viewed it as a typo. Seriously, I added the superscript one sentence early. There was never any feedback on the work itself.