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Comment by dekhn

13 hours ago

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.