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by Forge36 2172 days ago
>After writing a rather long paper, I began to draft a thorough bibliography. On the spur of the moment I decided to cite a few pa- pers which had nothing whatsoever to do with the content of my paper to see what might hap- pen.

>Somewhat to my surprise, I received letters from two of the authors whose papers I believed were irrelevant to my article. Both letters were written in an emotionally charged tone. Each of the authors warmly congratulated me for being the first to acknowledge their contribution to the field.

That's a very interesting approach.