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mrbig

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🧑🏻‍🔬 PhD, researcher, zoologist
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ingorohlfing , to academicchatter
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When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’
https://theconversation.com/when-scientific-citations-go-rogue-uncovering-sneaked-references-233858
Citation counts are boosted by articles that are cited in a publication's metadata and not in the published text. How is that possible? I believed that citations were based on fulltexts. At what point do authors provide metadata of citations that can differ from the published citations? @academicchatter

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@ingorohlfing @academicchatter Wow, this sounds big! Although I'm not surprised considering all the buzz a round the gamification of science that has been occurring in the past years. Just another post-it on the wall of shame :angry_lisa:

pjw , to academicchatter
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An ex-philosopher friend remarked to me yesterday that academicsjudging prestige and success by citation metrics incentivizes the same thing in slow-motion as social media algorithms judging success of content creators by engagement metrics, and it has thrown me into an existential crisis.

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mrbig ,
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@StephanieMoore «It’s more like “engagement,” which is a really terrible construct that means nothing because it means anything»

This is the heart of the citation problem. Look no further than the current crisis in taxonomy. It's one of the most important fields of conservation biology. Yet, people rarely cite taxonomic papers. Consequently, the field is now suffering from lack of funding because describing new species is not a worthwhile topic for the body of a paper.

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aspiringcat , to academicchatter
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Every couple of months I get slightly annoyed by Zotero and look for other reference managers and come to the conclusion that others are far more buggy!

Why don’t we have a reference manager that’s more — modern? Why can’t I take notes like I would in a good text editor? The way to add notes is clunky, I can’t easily see what papers have cited the current paper? Generating notes from my annotations is always not intuitive? Am I missing something here?

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mrbig ,
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@aspiringcat @academicchatter The best method to solve that, I found, is to synchronize Zotero with a note-taking app (LogSeq, Obsidian or Zettlr). Use Zotero as a reference manager and another app to take notes that point to your Zotero files. Zotero 6 improved this cross-platform note-taking task thanks to the PDF viewer. It's still a little clunky, but it's better than the current integranted note-taking system.

mrbig ,
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@independentpen @aspiringcat @academicchatter They are all excellent and serve different purposes. @zettlr is the best one if you're only interested in academic work. If you prefer to work with an outliner or journal-style notes, @logseq is the best one. They are both open-source. @obsidian is better if you're interested in a more flexible and interlinked note-taking system. This is the one I use. All three apps use local markdown files to keep your notes. Hope that was helpful :ablobsmile:

petersuber , to academicchatter
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New study: "Our results show that Chinese PhD student significant pressures to publish in order to obtain their degree, with papers indexed in the Science Citation Index [] often a mandatory requirement for students to obtain their degree. Moreover, it is found that first authorship is also mandatory."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04854-8


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mrbig ,
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@Thcoudreau @wolfgangcramer @petersuber @academicchatter I can confirm that in Portugal things have NOT changed for biologists. PhD students are mandated to have at least one scientific article published. Most supervisors enforce this rule. And even if they don't, the student is penalized when defending its thesis, regardless of the work or content of the thesis.

mrbig , to academicchatter
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Yesterday I successfully executed my first web scraping in R :ablobcathappypaws: It was my first time investigating a website so deeply. I also learned that dynamic pages are a pain to scrape from. Still, I'm curious to try other pages!

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