It’s not a given experts know what papers are reliable. Here’s a paper from Genentech https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15385631/ with 500 citations which my advisors swore is reliable because “they trust the authors.” Don’t mind the fact that the central thesis of the article is barely supported by the last figure in which they conveniently average data from completely different sets of experiments for each time point.

And did I mention my advisors released a drug into the market just recently? Lol.