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I think citation is a noisy/poor signal for peer-review. I've refereed a number of papers where I dig into the citations and find the article doesn't actually s

by bumby 2y ago

I think citation is a noisy/poor signal for peer-review. I've refereed a number of papers where I dig into the citations and find the article doesn't actually support the author's claim. Still, the vast majority of citations go unchecked. I don't think peer-review has to be done by journals, I'm just not sure what the better solution is.

d0mine 2y ago
I’ve definitely encountered such cases myself (when actual cited paper didn’t support author’s claims). Nothing prevents the site introducing more direct peer review (published X papers on a topic -> review a paper). Though If we compare two cases: reading a paper to leave an anonymous review vs reading a paper to cite it. The latter seems like more authentic and useful (less perversed incentives).