This is a question I stumbled upon while doing something unrelated, and I think it might be interesting for the community at large.

Given the bibliography someone gathered for a certain paper, is there a way to evaluate whether the bibliography is "good"? Or, more in general, to evaluate its "goodness"?

How would you do that? Surely, if it's missing some fundamental citations it might not be good. But citing too many papers without a good reason is also not very appealing. Is there (gasp!) a metric to assess the quality of a bibliography?

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