Apparently there are "citation rings" in my field: scholars who cite one another just to get more citations, even when writing about unrelated subject matter. I don't tend to get gratuitous citations, so you know that I am not part of one these rings, but my god...
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Yes, and sometimes I wonder if I'm seeing traces of them, although it might just be signs of some things going classic, or having been promoted in certain ways by the authors -- I can't be sure.
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