Neutral citation is poor scholarship

Nature Genetics 49, 1559 (2017).
doi:10.1038/ng.3989

Citation of prior publications is essential both to claim that knowledge is needed in your area of research and to establish that you have indeed advanced understanding substantially in that area. The journal deplores and will decline to consider manuscripts that fail to identify the key findings of published articles and that—deliberately or inadvertently—omit the reason the prior work is cited.

Source: Nature Genetics - October 27, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Editorial Source Type: research