Real question, are there any instances of someone’s research being so niche that the only option is to cite themselves?
Citation Ascension
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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rockSlayer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Happens all the time.
azimir@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I did some work In a field with a total of 6 papers over 30 years. It was niche as all get out. Did my second paper cite the first? You betcha. I literally cited every research paper ever done on the topic, including mine.
Now there’s 7 papers on the topic.
Gork@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Recently I’ve actually been wondering how the hell researchers manage their citations for big projects, because a while back I started doing some research on the Cass Review, stumbled on my own dick and accidentally ended up with 70-something disorganized citations that were a pain in the ass to clean up.
I’m definitely checking out those first two software lol
bobtimus_prime@feddit.org 7 months ago
I made good experiences with Zotero. Works well with LaTeX, a Browser-Plugin allows to add Papers directly and you can annotate downloaded PDFs. Only Problems I had were the Paper-Metadata wich often needed some fixig. Also that you can only host on their server is a slight disadvantage.
Phineaz@feddit.org 7 months ago
+1 for Zotero and Biblatex. You do need the “Better Bibtex”-Plugin though, or at least I highly recommend it.
“Zotfile” allows you to more or less automatically create a filesystem, so as long as you have a way to sync parts of your drive (or access a server) you can have working links to every paper in your library on any machine.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Zotero
azimir@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It’s all about biblatex. I only write using Word/docx if they force me to for publication, otherwise I use LaTeX for typesetting. It’s vastly superior for serious publications, especially technical ones.
I use JabRef for managing my citation databases.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Jabref is great. Also, if you need other formats you can always import the bibtex file into Zotero.