Comment by sandeepkd
19 hours ago
I have a similar to pagerank method I use to evaluate such papers. I look for the references to see how many authors are using their own references (past work), the idea being that people do not jump too far, they make incremental progress.
For the pre-print I could only find only one author who has a single referenced article.
The pre-print authors all have long publication histories.
Pagerank was inspired by academic citation networks; it just turned it in a recursive matrix problem (of which there was some prior literature).
> references to see how many authors are using their own references (past work), the idea being that people do not jump too far, they make incremental progress
The authors are not using their own prior work in the paper, thats the point I was trying to make. I have worked in biotech lab for couple years and its one of the criteria's people use to consider some ones work useful and worth the time.