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Not funny at all. Referencing your own work, by itself, is not a bad sign. In many cases, the groundbreaking work take several years to accomplish. The years of
by lake99 14y ago
Not funny at all. Referencing your own work, by itself, is not a bad sign. In many cases, the groundbreaking work take several years to accomplish. The years of work generate several new ideas on their own, resulting in several related papers.
- mturmon 14y agoYes. The OP agrees; here is the full context of the quote: "Groundbreaking papers...out of research teams in smaller universities that have been tackling the problem for about six to ten years. The later is easy to spot: they reference their own publications in the papers, showing that they have been on the problem for some time now, and that they base their new work on a proven record of publications."