Here's an example from today. A paper in @FrontNeurol cites our work, but totally out of context. If you read the paper, you'd see that 2/n
A problem with the scientific literature we don't discuss enough: people can cite papers as supporting anything, whether they do or not. 1/n
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the paper referenced below is an entirely tangential side-note to our work. But you can't expect the referees to have caught this. 3/npic.twitter.com/xGnkmDBaiS
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My first paper is an excercise in this. "We don't know who flu season exists" - cited in dozens of papers making the assumptions we talk abt
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And now we cite your review all the time to support that we still don't know a lot about flu seasonality
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A v thoughtful data scientist could change the world by writing a tool which lifted the sentences with the citation in it and displays them.
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@AllenAI_org does exactly this. Also lists identifies highly influential citations. E.g. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Publication-bias-and-the-canonization-of-false-fac-Nissen-Magidson/d4faa7d6ba69dc58bbf5864b0e3a246e54bf48ce …pic.twitter.com/jW0ri2AN2q
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@combatbb if journals overlaid comments of referenced author in situ it could incentivize honesty/rigor?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Discussed this with colleagues recently. All had papers of their own that were wrongly cited; none felt they had ever done the same tho!
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I average 4-5 downloads of references for each review I do. Doesn't everyone?
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