“Sometimes”? Lol.
82% of researchers cite studies without reading them, I’m pretty sure I read this somewhere
You seemed to have forgotten to cite your source.
The actual number is estimated to be 37% according to one study. Nowhere near your number but still pretty high if you ask me. Source
The truth during grad school when you get assigned more reading than is humanly possible. 🥲
I’ve even been known to use sci hub! I know right? Call the cops we’ve got a bad mother fucker right here
I like bad citations on artificial skimmed milk as well.
The abstract is there for a reason. Shrug.
I have my PhD now, and have published 3 conference papers and 2 journal articles. I’m not in academia now.
About half of my academic citations came from a poster I presented at a conference from before I started grad school. A poster that was never uploaded online, has no paper with it, and as far as I know, 15 people have seen in real life.
They were citing the online abstract, which has no real meat to it, just a single picture of my choosing and a paragraph of text or so.
Holy shit man. This project was barely science at this point. The methodology was soooo bad, and only made sense because I barely knew what I was doing and the researcher advising me was a bit out of their depth.
Im genuinely confused. Then why even cite those articles? Is there a hard rule for “You must cite this much articles” before publishing?
I think that has to do with this xkcd:
![When advertisers figure this out, our only weapon will be blue sharpies and "[disputed]".](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citations.png)
Sounds Legit!
Sounds legit [1].
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Often yes, also, you may genuinely have to review A LOT of articles to make your point, and at that point, reading them in whole alone is gonna take you a few weeks time.
