• silver13@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Never thought about that, but I guess you could easily create circular reasoning with two or more publications citing each other?

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Why do it with two? The Daily Wire cites their own stories all the time as evidence something is happening.

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      8 months ago

      Publish date would be hard, since you can’t cite a paper from the future, and for most reputable journals you citing anything non-peer-reviewed would raise a lot of eyebrows

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      Not necessarily, however, I’ve been down a shocking number of citation threads where the thing being ciit d actually never exists.

      It’s like 2-3 publications deep and thread ends at “unpublished data/ results” or, like it’s just a lie and they never did the thing the author 2-3 orders removed is claiming they did. Or something’s it’s an unfounded conclusion or assertion made in the discussion.