| ▲ | michaelt a day ago | |
> Surely there are tools to retrieve all the citations, Even if you could retrieve all citations (which isn't always as easy as you might hope) to validate citations you'd also have to confirm the paper says what the person citing it says. If I say "A GPU requires 1.4kg of copper" citing [1] is that a valid citation? That means not just reviewing one paper, but also potentially checking 70+ papers it cites. The vast majority of paper reviewers will not check citations actually say what they're claimed to say, unless a truly outlandish claim is made. At the same time, academia is strangely resistant to putting hyperlinks in citations, preferring to maintain old traditions - like citing conference papers by page number in a hypothetical book that has never been published; and having both a free and a paywalled version of a paper while considering the paywalled version the 'official' version. | ||