How to distinguish between real papers and bullshit papers? I never know if what I'm reading is believable or written by a crackpot>inb4 learn first and then if the paper matches with what you learn then it's veridicbut I need to learn from somewhere no? if I knew everything, I wouldn't need to read papers
It depends on the subjects doesn't it?Like for example if it's related to formulas it's easy to realize if it's written to memorize (written by a "crackpot") or if it's written to understand (the real use for formulas, the golden paper) Or idk maybe you're talking about something completely different
>>17016224You just need to read enough papers to get a sense for it. Usually it comes down to knowing who the authors are and being familiar with their work. It's easier for contemporary authors because you can meet them at conferences and it becomes pretty clear who knows what they're talking about and whether they are sloppy with their work.If it were something straightforwardly obvious that could be summarized in a single post, the bad papers wouldn't get published in the first place.
>>17016224Fold it into a paper airplane.Throw the paper airplane into the garbage can.If it makes it into the garbage can, it's true.
>>17016290One thing that not alot of people have figured out is that the Chinese language literature is much higher quality (and less filled with blatant fabrications) than English papers by Chinese authors. Often the English papers are just the chinese papers where the authors got lazy with translating and decided to cut most of the content out.Unfortunately they've been cracking down on overseas access the past few years.
>>17016290some CN authors are ok and doing real science.indian authors are more of a mark of low quality especially all indians
>>17016278I had a physics professor who said that before going to a surgery, she'd read several papers about the procedure to learn about her oddsbut how can she do that if she knows physics but doesn't know medicine?
>>17016224You read multiple papers until you have enough understanding on the subject to discern what is plausible and what isn't, if you still can't tell research that topic specifically or attempt to replicate some of their findings.If you can't do that then don't worry it's totally irrelevant if you "believe" in any paper your opinion won't matter anyways.
