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That's because it really isn't an academic paper. He clearly stated that he was publishing it as a manifesto of what he would be researching going forward. Wou
by whoisjuan 4y ago
That's because it really isn't an academic paper. He clearly stated that he was publishing it as a manifesto of what he would be researching going forward.
Would it be different if he just published it on a Medium or Substack blog?
I'm not an academic so I don't understand these weird feuds but seems pretty ridiculous to call someone out for lack of citations when they clearly disclosed the nature of that writing as somewhat unofficial and opinion-based.
Maybe there's something I don't understand about those academic circles.
- nr2x 4y agoThere is a giant leaderboard called “citation count”. You get a real time “score” that can define your career prospects. So, like any system with a “score”, people become warped, they focus on the score above all else. So this person thinks they aren’t getting their magical citation “points” and are mad. Nobody owns ideas and very few ideas are original, or much more important, timely. If anybody is getting screwed it’s the science fiction authors!