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How to cite statements in book based on unverifiable sources
While reading books on Indian politics (not aware if this happens outside as well), frequently the citations for a particular claim is some interview with a person being talked about. In this case, ...
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If your field is so isolated that nobody cites your work, does that make you irrelevant?
A group of researchers work in a problem that no one else works on, hence these researchers are cited only by themselves. They cite other papers, too.
How does the academia consider these cases?
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Is citing a blog post allowed in a research project?
I'm currently writing an essay on the possible benefits of video games in education for my Extended Project Qualification, and for part of it I want to cite a blog post from Gamasutra written by a ...
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The reputation of a researcher: number of Citations vs Quality of publication
From my social circle and from google scholar I learn that sometimes a trendy work with very less scientific depth gets more citations compare to a less trendy work with high scientific depth. So the ...
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Where to find journal impact factors stripped of self-citation?
Where can I find a database of impact factors where self-citation has been removed? A journal's self-citations are defined as those citations by that journal's papers towards other papers in the same ...
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Attributing contributions to academic work that occur in Stack Exchange
Sometimes we may ask questions on stack exchange or online forums wherein the response is helpful or even essential to a piece of work that gets published in an academic journal. If this occurs, how ...
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