Scholarship is a virtue, and placing what you did in the wider context is a very important part of pushing science forward (civilization could advance faster if people were more aware of other stuff out there—how many times have people reinvented graphical models?)
Signal to noise depends on the quality of the author—there are plenty of dense papers in academia, in all disciplines.
Scholarship is a virtue, and placing what you did in the wider context is a very important part of pushing science forward (civilization could advance faster if people were more aware of other stuff out there—how many times have people reinvented graphical models?)
Signal to noise depends on the quality of the author—there are plenty of dense papers in academia, in all disciplines.