Comment by sandeepkd
15 hours ago
> 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.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand both the results published here, and how scientists operating at the highest level of academic research operate. None of these authors has to worry about citing previous work to get the attention of biotech labs.