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Never thought about that, but I guess you could easily create circular reasoning with two or more publications citing each other?
Not necessarily, however, I’ve been down a shocking number of citation threads where the thing being ciit d actually never exists.
It’s like 2-3 publications deep and thread ends at “unpublished data/ results” or, like it’s just a lie and they never did the thing the author 2-3 orders removed is claiming they did. Or something’s it’s an unfounded conclusion or assertion made in the discussion.