Re:Academic Urban Legends
by kenjackson on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @11:33PM
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The problem is that key papers are cited by a LOT of other papers, these with variable quality.
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Re:Academic Urban Legends
by danieltillett on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:16AM
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Yes they are, but there is no better way of finding those papers that can’t be found using keyword searches. I have found hundreds of critical papers over the years by using this technique that I would never have found in a thousand years using any other search method.