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“Scientists more likely to cite the work of friends. Scientists also more likely to attend the talks of friends.” Wonder if they controlled for this? I’m assum
by pfannkuchen 3y ago
“Scientists more likely to cite the work of friends. Scientists also more likely to attend the talks of friends.”
Wonder if they controlled for this? I’m assuming the article doesn’t mention it (they rarely address obvious first order nitpicks).
- not2b 3y agoThere are so many factors that it's difficult to sort them out. Back when I attended conferences (have only been to one since Covid) I choose to attend talks that I'm interested in and skip those that are less interesting. Back when I was publishing, if there were another author working on the same problem as me for sure I would try to attend their talk and would probably end up citing it in a future paper.
- bookpeople 3y agoIf you tally just the papers and talks that you cited, not those you did not cite, what is the ratio of the amount of time spent on reading papers from conference talks and listening to the talks to the amount of time spent on reading papers without talks?
- not2b 3y agoNo idea. It's been a long time since I was in a research-oriented group and published frequently and I didn't track my time in the detail that would be needed to answer this.
- renewiltord 3y agoWhat would you do to control for that?
- ta8903 3y agoOnly study scientists with no friends.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoCanceling out author-reciprocal citations would be one approach to consider, though that would itself have some hazards we’d have to avoid.
- missedthecue 3y agoBut it also seems like scientists are more likely to cite friends whose presentations they see in person and cite friends less whose presentations they see virtually.