A weak paper may earn more citations — everyone cites it to beat it
LucaAmb · x · 2026-10-06
puneetdokania offers a counterintuitive observation about academic publishing: publishing a weak paper may attract more citations, because every subsequent paper on the topic will gladly cite it to show they can beat it. He jokes this is not advice he gives to his students or collaborators. The tweet was retweeted by LucaAmb.
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