I really think that the increasing number of published papers has resulted in people reading fewer papers.
I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but...
...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.
Dan Levenstein
Bethany Brookshire
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
