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I tend to use and cite older works because they tend to be better written and reproducible.
by chestertn 4y ago
I tend to use and cite older works because they tend to be better written and reproducible.
- bee_rider 4y agoCould this just be selection bias? Clearly the older works that people are still talking about are pretty special. This is sort of addressed in the "top cited papers" section. But I think a better metric would be something like "are papers that we'll still be discussing in 20 years still being published." Hard to say until 20 years goes by.
- chestertn 4y agoI am talking about old papers that might not be widely known (i.e., have few citations) but present some useful results that I can use in my research. In my field, the latest papers are a bit "click-baity". They have interesting titles with many trending words but when you read them it is hard to find either a coherent vision or a single result that one can build on top of. Of course, I am generalizing. There is great research being done today and low-quality papers in the past. But it is completely true that the need to publish has distorted the goal of research communication.