Goddamn it, why is academia so indecipherable and yet so relatable??
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frustratedphagocytosis@kbin.social 7 months ago
I call BS, there's not enough room for this sort of detail, you'd get 'as described previously in [1-4, 9, 84, 86, 150-160, unpublished observations]' half of which are unaccessible journals, out of print book chapters, and abstracts in German
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
inconel@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I only encountered once, but when it happened I had to realize how old science field may have been different. the exact detail I was looking for should be in [20] … but “[20] to be published” (presumably by the same author). I couldn’t find any papet by author’s name other than that but the author was so sure getting published.
frustratedphagocytosis@kbin.social 7 months ago
My favorite is recursive bad citations in the method section. As in, citing a paper that cited a previous paper that itself cited a previous paper that cited an abstract with no detailed methodology whatsoever, leaving the true methods a mystery unless you get the senior author to reply to emails.