Reviewer's note "you missed an important reference" pointed to their own paper
prof_kamilov · x · 2026-11-06
An academic anecdote: a peer reviewer wrote "The authors have overlooked an important reference" — which turned out to be the reviewer's own paper. The author admired the subtlety of the phrasing.
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