Fw: reading versus citing

[Kate McCain]

All,

This was posted on CHMINF-L today. I thought it might be of interest to
people who don't lurk on that listserv. Apologies for any duplication.

Regards,

Kate McCain
College of Information Science  & Technology
Drexel University
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Persons interested in the issue that Flora Grabowska refers to below may
want to see the following,
which Mikhail Simkin brought to my attention yesterday. It is a detailed
version of the paper about copied citations:
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401529


Brian Simboli
Lehigh University

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Flora Grabowska wrote:

> Christina's last point is well taken although I missed the posting she
> refers to.  It may also be that scientists skim/read articles cited.
> Last summer an MIT team made CNN news which was not really news
> because a Vassar scientist had published the same findings 5 years
> earlier *and was cited by the MIT group* in their Nature article.
>
> see  MIT grahics at
>
> WATER-WALKING HAS HIDDEN DEPTHS
> Infographic explains how water striders skim the surface with such
> apparent ease.
> http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eLiL0CgtHx0C30DQe0Ao
>
> I understand the MIT scientists have since acknowledged that they
> essentially re-researched earlier work which at least one of them had
> seen but perhaps not digested fully.  Bob Suter's earlier work had
> even made its way into books on locomotion so it was not exactly
obscure!
>
> Flora
>
>
>>
>> Also, it may be worth looking at the work posted here a few weeks ago
>> about how scientists only read a small percent of the articles they
cite.
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> Christina K. Pikas, MLS
>> R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center
>> The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
>> Voice  240.228.4812 (Washington), 443.778.4812 (Baltimore)
>
>> Fax 443.778.5353
>
>
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