"Sometimes"? Lol.

The truth during grad school when you get assigned more reading than is humanly possible. 🥲

82% of researchers cite studies without reading them, I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere

I've even been known to use sci hub! I know right? Call the cops we've got a bad mother fucker right here

I like bad citations on artificial skimmed milk as well.

Im genuinely confused. Then why even cite those articles? Is there a hard rule for "You must cite this much articles" before publishing?

The abstract is there for a reason. Shrug.

I have my PhD now, and have published 3 conference papers and 2 journal articles. I’m not in academia now.

About half of my academic citations came from a poster I presented at a conference from before I started grad school. A poster that was never uploaded online, has no paper with it, and as far as I know, 15 people have seen in real life.

They were citing the online abstract, which has no real meat to it, just a single picture of my choosing and a paragraph of text or so.

Holy shit man. This project was barely science at this point. The methodology was soooo bad, and only made sense because I barely knew what I was doing and the researcher advising me was a bit out of their depth.