"Sometimes"? Lol.
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The truth during grad school when you get assigned more reading than is humanly possible. ๐ฅฒ
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
I like bad citations on artificial skimmed milk as well.
I've even been known to use sci hub! I know right? Call the cops we've got a bad mother fucker right here
Im genuinely confused. Then why even cite those articles? Is there a hard rule for "You must cite this much articles" before publishing?
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.
![When advertisers figure this out, our only weapon will be blue sharpies and "[disputed]".](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citations.png)
I have my PhD now, and have published 3 conference papers and 2 journal articles. Iโm 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.
The abstract is there for a reason. Shrug.