The incentive system in academia is to produce people who cite their mentors in formal research. Really? My advisor has tenure, and I think he couldn't care le

The incentive system in academia is to produce people who cite their mentors in formal research. Really? My advisor has tenure, and I think he couldn't care less how much his students later go on to cite him. Why should he? He will get lots of citations anyhow (some from former students) because he does a lot of good work, but that's kind of an orthogonal issue.