If this were true how would anyone ever get the first citation?
Because the policy wasn’t applied until after a cutoff date, so the recursion bottoms out at an author from before the cutoff. Obviously. Edit: Non-obviously. Edit2: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO END THIS COMMENT FOR YOU MEATBAGS NOT TO VOTE ME DOWN???
I think your comment is getting voted down because it doesn’t actually answer the issue in question. It does allow there to be a set of citable papers, but it doesn’t deal with the actual question which is how any given paper would ever get its first citation.
Yes, it does, because paper B, from after the cutoff, cites a cite-less paper A, from before the cutoff. Then a paper C can cite B (or A), as B cites a previous paper, and A is from a time for which the standard today is not applied. (Perhaps I wasn’t clear that the cutoff also applies to citable papers—papers from before the cutoff don’t themselves need citations in them to be citable.)
Edit: Also, papers from before the cutoff cited other prior papers.
It’s not citing but being cited, I think. So if A and B are both before the cutoff, and A cites B, then C from after the cutoff can cite B (but not necessarily A).
Because the policy wasn’t applied until after a cutoff date, so the recursion bottoms out at an author from before the cutoff. Obviously. Edit: Non-obviously. Edit2: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO END THIS COMMENT FOR YOU MEATBAGS NOT TO VOTE ME DOWN???
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure that’s not it.
I think your comment is getting voted down because it doesn’t actually answer the issue in question. It does allow there to be a set of citable papers, but it doesn’t deal with the actual question which is how any given paper would ever get its first citation.
Yes, it does, because paper B, from after the cutoff, cites a cite-less paper A, from before the cutoff. Then a paper C can cite B (or A), as B cites a previous paper, and A is from a time for which the standard today is not applied. (Perhaps I wasn’t clear that the cutoff also applies to citable papers—papers from before the cutoff don’t themselves need citations in them to be citable.)
Edit: Also, papers from before the cutoff cited other prior papers.
It’s not citing but being cited, I think. So if A and B are both before the cutoff, and A cites B, then C from after the cutoff can cite B (but not necessarily A).
Personally I thought it was a good comment even before the edit.