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8570726 No.8570726 [Reply] [Original]

>Paper A cites paper B
>Paper B cites paper A

>> No.8570732

The technical term for it is called circlejerk.

>> No.8570742

>>8570732
>>>reddit

>> No.8570755

>>8570726
Name 1 study where this happens.

>> No.8570757

>>8570742

No that's a forum, not a term. But it does suffer from circlejerking as well.

>> No.8570790

>>8570726
>Make technical report
>submit one half of results to one venue, other half to another
>cite each other and the tech report for completion
It's also not uncommon to submit and have (submitted to) in some references and if one paper takes long to publish you end up with this

>> No.8570809

>>8570755
not OP and i cant give an actual example but ive seen a paper cite another paper that wasnt published yet with a (to be published) tag

the future paper was never actually published but if it was it presumably would have cited the older one

>> No.8570848

>>8570755
>>8570809

Yeah, it happens, either within one group (student A cites student B and student B cites student A when they both publish at the same time) or in small research communities where there's maybe a couple hundred active researchers.

You're at a conference. Someone presents something. Someone asks an interesting open question, and the presenter gives some insight and says he's actually working on one way to tackle that question. A couple people in the room think of other ways to tackle that question. Suddenly, 3 or 4 groups of people that know each other are working on similar problem.

When one of the groups submit their paper for publication, it's very likely that someone from one of the other groups will be assigned as a reviewer (because, well, the editor probably knows them and knows about the shared interest). They'll see what the other is doing, and if things go well there isn't any overlap between the main results of the paper they're reviewing and their own research, but it's still a good citation for them as it adds insight to their work. So when they submit their own research, they cite that paper they reviewed (with something like "to be published or "submitted for publication"). In fact, there's even guidelines for citations like that, for instance for IEEE journals it's page 5 of https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf

Anyways, that paper with the "to be published" citation is sent for review, people talk, both groups now know the other is publishing and get early copies of the other group's papers and decide to cite them.