Still, we can easily imagine a similar effect arising if the scientists do read the papers they cite, but use the citation lists in other papers to direct their own reading.
Indeed this is commonplace for all academic fields, though I don’t see the problem with it, so long as the effect doesn’t squash new work.
Indeed this is commonplace for all academic fields, though I don’t see the problem with it, so long as the effect doesn’t squash new work.