It is my personal feeling and observation (may be wrong also) that RG members, when in a scientific discussion, paste a lot of reference materials or paste material from some website/paper.
Categorically speaking, here, I do not oppose referring to any valid/relevant article. Rather the candidate may write the essence of the article for justifying his/her stance.
I feel, too much of reference materials keeps us from improving our thought process and article-framing capacity.
What I feel is we all must be able to think and frame statements on our own philosophy of our subject/science.
Philosophy is what a subject has imparted us along a course of time ever since we all started studying it.
Philosophy helps us understanding a problem in a better and concise manner. For the obvious reasons, the problem-solving would be better.
Regards,
MKD
Hello Manoj,
I do agree that the number of references does not count. What matters is the contribution of your research to the community of practice or the field. However, there are some leading figures in each field or discipline that have written/worked on certain issues more than others and they should be acknowledged, for ethical reasons and scientific credibility. In other words, you should convince these gate-keepers (who have more authority than you/me) of the significance of your study. Otherwise, your research might have only local value.
Regards,
Dr. Naghdipour,
Thanks for expressing your views.
I would like to bring your attention to the spirit of my question. I quoted the following for a certain categorical objective.
"I feel, too much of reference materials keeps us from improving our thought process and article-framing capacity.
What I feel is we all must be able to think and frame statements on our own philosophy of our subject/science.".
I am against bypassing some "figure" of the field. They should be referred to but I again quote myself back "Rather the candidate may write the essence of the article for justifying his/her stance.".
I think I put it in a right way.
Ragards,
MKD
Thank you Sir,
You are right. Too many references is a disservice to our agency and authority as a researcher. Two years ago, I submitted an article to a reputable journal and both reviewers criticized me for using too many references. Now, I am very careful! I only use a reference when I feel there is a strong need to do so, and when I feel the idea is a common belief I do not use any reference.
Regards,
Bakhtiar
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