érase una vez un reto. un reto que proponía pensar un poco en la ciencia que hacemos y a qué objetivos responde de una manera como mínimo divertida

nan swift dixit:
is werner-michael kulicke the king of self-referencing? a paper he published in the year 2000 suggests that maybe, just maybe, he is. when scientists write a paper, they usually include a list of other papers that played a part in their thinking. this list is supposed to give credit where credit is due. some scientists are overly shy about referencing other papers that they themselves have written. other scientists are not so very shy.

the challenge: if you know of a published academic study that surpasses werner-michael kulicke’s record of including 23 self-references, please send us a copy.

el artículo en cuestión, para los curiosos, se encuentra citado en la página del challenge del último número de la revista annals of improbable research, y poco a poco se van generando nuevos ganadores un ejemplo, el de heckman en econometrika:

un investigador europeo (de forma anónima) dixit:
following the challenge (in air 12:4, p. 12) to find a published academic study that surpasses dr. w.-m. kulickle’s record of 23 self-references, here is an article recently published by the economics nobel prize wiener [sic] j.j. heckman, in which i counted more than 30 self-references.

although i am convinced that this is not a world record, i believe it sets new standards in this area. with best regards, [name withheld by request]

ps: professor j.j. heckman is notorious for his bad temper. so, please do not reveal your sources on this one.

30 autocitas, de un premio nobel que bonita es la ciencia, y qué bien que nos lo seguimos pasando. consejo gratuíto y de escasa valía dado como está el mundo de la investigación actual: no te autocites mucho que te pueden sacar los colores en una revista como ésta :-p por cierto, annals of improbable research, mucho más que recomendada para reirnos un poco de nosotros mismos y no sólo por los premios ig nobel anuales