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Can't you cite things that you disagree with? Or cite background material that you feel is subpar? That would be the norm especially if your research paper is
by true_religion 4y ago
Can't you cite things that you disagree with? Or cite background material that you feel is subpar?
That would be the norm especially if your research paper is focused on new technology. For example you would write Herbet et co, in Journal Blah found results of X with method Y. However method Y has flaws of A, B, and C...
Even if a pervious study was utterly stupid in your opinion, if it's been widely publicized you still need to talk about it or else risk being accused of missing the basics.
- haswell 4y agoThis was my thought as well. Merely citing the material isn’t necessarily a problem on its own. The nature of the citation and how that impacts the paper doing the citing would need to be examined to form a meaningful opinion about Google’s behavior here.
- lupire 4y agoYou are right but the implication was that the citations were not rebuttals.
- true_religion 4y agoThen the answer is that even papers that don't meet the "high" standard that every organization and journal likes to think they hold themselves to when publishing, still contain relevant data and explanations that are citable. Although let's be clear... this is bureaucratic issue. Some journals only publish English language papers. No matter how impactful your paper is, they'll never publish it if you wrote it in Tamil. Google only publishes papers that doesn't directly insult them, and spread fear about their own proprietary technology while providing no clear solutions. The paper may be brilliant but they definitely won't put their money and name behind it. Since they (Google) are ideologically opposed to the paper's findings, I can't imagine they are citing it to talk about how brilliant it is though...