>They’re now in the process of changing the journals’ editorial controls to address this risk, but it’s unclear how far down the rabbit hole one must go checkin

>They’re now in the process of changing the journals’ editorial controls to address this risk, but it’s unclear how far down the rabbit hole one must go checking citations’ citations ad infinitum. This reminds me of a project my coworker did for the university cafeteria. They wanted a system so that their website could list all the ingredients of foods that were going to be served. My coworker was stuck using XSLT to make the page and he decided to use 6-layer nested if instead of learning how to use recursion in XSLT. We had to rewrite the system from scratch and were able to get rid of this limitation on the database side at which we discovered that some recipes had 7 and 8 deep graphs and only looking 6 deep was hiding known allergens. It's good they're considering how extensively you should verify the info. So all the cited papers in the submitted article are relevant and authentic... are all the cited papers in the cited papers in the submitted article relevant and authentic? Big fun for the reviewers.