Re: Why COPY != SIMULATED COPY

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   The fact that the L4 papers are sloppy about citations is not a
   minor thing. It has potentially serious negative career impact on
   other researchers.

Many branches of science (computing science is one) depend too much on
_incorrect_ citation, and will cite papers that have no relevance to
the actual article just to boost a fellows `citation count'.  One
should cite what is relevant and what was _actually_used_, and the UKA
people have done that.

I atleast am sick of seeing a citation list that is longer than the
actual article, and citations that have no relevance to the subject at
hand.  I have seen to many such articles (one might ask if this is a
US academia problem, where people often polute articles with white
noise so that it is `bigger'--bigger is better is not better)

I'll shutup now.