In your opinion, how common is this practice? Is there a tendency to cite publications in high impact factors?
Thank you Farid for sharing your ideas. I agree with you that "people cite whatever results they need" to support their findings, although when they find several references, some would cite publications in journals with high impact factor.
I believe the rule should be to use as many citations as possible. The popular political work of Noam Chomsky is a good example. Even though Chomsky's books have an extensive reference list no one would ever surmise that he was not the conductor of the orchestra. If one finds citations inserted within text unseemly then use numbers. It is true that newspapers and magazines rarely use citations but we all know that an author's knowledge is build on the shoulders of others and should be acknowledge as so. Should novels be written with citations? Now that is a question for a future debate.
Thank you Edward for sharing your perspective. I am not familiar with the work of Noam Chomsky, but I will read it. Regarding your interesting question on citations in written novels; I think there is a little difference, although acknowledging inspiring authors should be encouraged especially if such citations are used, as performance indicators, in the evaluation of academics working in the social sciences and humanities disciplines.
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