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How can you tell when you are reading a paper?

• dekhn 3mo ago
  The author list will show "M.D." instead of (or in addition to) "Ph.D.". The paper terminology will be skewed towards medical terms.
• mishellaneous 3mo ago
  my impression is that inside these niches, people know each other personally, or are only separated by a small number of degrees. reputations form, etc. so any paper they end up reading, most likely does not have completely unknown authors from completely unknown institutions. without this information, yeah, it'd be harder to judge. surely anyone can find out anyone else's (using full name and institution) academic background online today, but it'd not be so easy to judge it without being an insider.
• elendilm 3mo ago
  There will be clues and leaks hidden in the sentences of the paper. Compression always leaks out.