> Besides, in many fields, citations are provided just for completeness. "Previous studies have dealt with -TOPIC- (-CITATION_1-, -CITATION_2-, ...)" is quite a

> Besides, in many fields, citations are provided just for completeness. "Previous studies have dealt with -TOPIC- (-CITATION_1-, -CITATION_2-, ...)" is quite a common construct in the natural sciences, for example. Exactly what information can be gleaned from this is uncertain to me, beyond "-CITATION_x- CITES -CITATION_1-", "-CITATION_x- CITES -CITATION_2-" and so forth. And this citation linkage is already available. I published one paper before leaving academia. It was published in a top journal in the field and has about a dozen citations now (I get a notification email each time a new citation pops up). Every single one of them is this kind of citation-in-passing. Not a single one actually engaged with the content of the paper. I have a couple other half-finished papers that I was working on before I quit, and sometimes I think about going back and polishing them up for publication, but given the reception my previous paper received it's hard to justify the time. It's not like I need papers for tenure now.