Timeline for Is it acceptable to have a research paper with no references?
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| Nov 19, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Matthew | @RexKerr - I agree that it is invalid to suggest all subjects that will ever see published research already have published material. I disagree that a yet-researched subject will come to be researched without any influence or inspiration from something that exists. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 1:02 | comment | added | Rex Kerr | @Matt - That the assumption was correct doesn't make it a good answer, though. "All legitimate areas of inquiry are already fields with published literature" is what it is implicitly stating. I doubt that is true or should be true, even if it is almost always true that work does fall within an established field. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 9:02 | comment | added | Matthew | Rex, it seems that this answer assumes that there is related work and posits that the professors supporting the project have failed to understand or investigate the sub-field. The OP actually replied back to one of F'x 's comments above that there was material to reference. He/She had a misunderstanding in what should/should not be referenced. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 1:01 | comment | added | Rex Kerr | This answer doesn't seem to address the question's premise that there is no related work and instead goes off on a tangent about kooks. Although it is important to be able to identify sloppy self-referencing work, that's not what the poster is asking. Instead of merely assuming incompetence, there should at least be some advice about how to search for relevant work or broaden what is considered relevant or something. | |
| S Nov 14, 2013 at 20:34 | history | edited | F'x | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Nov 14, 2013 at 20:34 | history | suggested | Toby Allen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2013 at 16:14 | history | answered | user1482 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |