>that means thousands of people read them ahah, if only that were the case :) "read" is a pretty loose term. I think its a house of cards. When you cite som

>that means thousands of people read them ahah, if only that were the case :) "read" is a pretty loose term. I think its a house of cards. When you cite something, you do so (usually) because it supports your paper, basically "X did Y and we need Y to be true for the foundations of this paper." When you cite "X", you do so with the assumption that X did their due diligence and peer review would have caught any issues... but its still only an assumption. If you had to re-create every experiment for every paper you cite, I'm not sure if one would ever actually finish their own research. I have only ever published one paper though, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It's just my experience.