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[-] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago

"Sometimes"? Lol.

[-] Beth@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

The truth during grad school when you get assigned more reading than is humanly possible. 🥲

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago

82% of researchers cite studies without reading them, I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

I've even been known to use sci hub! I know right? Call the cops we've got a bad mother fucker right here

[-] Betch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I like bad citations on artificial skimmed milk as well.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

[-] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The abstract is there for a reason. Shrug.

[-] Water_Melon_boy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Im genuinely confused. Then why even cite those articles? Is there a hard rule for "You must cite this much articles" before publishing?

[-] waldfee@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

I think that has to do with this xkcd:

When advertisers figure this out, our only weapon will be blue sharpies and "[disputed]".

[-] Water_Melon_boy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Sounds Legit!

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds legit [1].

[1]

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Often yes, also, you may genuinely have to review A LOT of articles to make your point, and at that point, reading them in whole alone is gonna take you a few weeks time.

[-] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I have my PhD now, and have published 3 conference papers and 2 journal articles. I’m not in academia now.

About half of my academic citations came from a poster I presented at a conference from before I started grad school. A poster that was never uploaded online, has no paper with it, and as far as I know, 15 people have seen in real life.

They were citing the online abstract, which has no real meat to it, just a single picture of my choosing and a paragraph of text or so.

Holy shit man. This project was barely science at this point. The methodology was soooo bad, and only made sense because I barely knew what I was doing and the researcher advising me was a bit out of their depth.