Maybe I’m generation gapped. I don’t understand how this stuff isn’t caught during peer review - that’s one of the things we are supposed to be looking for, appropriate citations.
Lived it. Most of the citations in my area I’m familiar with the paper, or at least the lab. It’s only the novel ones or strange combinations of people that I’d look up.
It really depends how well a paper fits your area of expertise and the specific field you’re in how easy it is to know most of the papers cited I think. I would mostly look up citations that support claims I have doubts about.
Maybe I’m generation gapped. I don’t understand how this stuff isn’t caught during peer review - that’s one of the things we are supposed to be looking for, appropriate citations.
Because we have to do peer review for free while having a high workload and zero time available to check all 50 citations.
Lived it. Most of the citations in my area I’m familiar with the paper, or at least the lab. It’s only the novel ones or strange combinations of people that I’d look up.
It really depends how well a paper fits your area of expertise and the specific field you’re in how easy it is to know most of the papers cited I think. I would mostly look up citations that support claims I have doubts about.