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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Academics already do this when citing sources, just make everyone else do it too.

Academics are supposed to do this when citing sources, now it's more like "here's a paper with a title that looks relevant whose abstract I barely read at the end of this sentence to make it look more authoritative" or "Here's the last paper I wrote on this subject."

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

5 self-referencing papers deeper, "oh, you actually did take the time to write the methods...10 years ago."

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

It happens so much! meow-tableflip