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. _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
