Citations are oddly asymmetrical: unlimited times cited, but capped references
arjunrajlab · x · 2026-10-17
A researcher points out a structural asymmetry in academic citations: a paper can be cited as many times as the world decides, yet it can only cite up to some practical maximum number of references. He raises a thought experiment—what would the literature look like if papers could cite as many works as they wanted?
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