You know something is seriously real when it's satirized.
(Now why did they pick NEJM...?) I suggest everyone here add
one citation representing their discipline. You're so
creative, right?
Remember, we're all in this together.
Go.
B'adant
Collecting Citations Date: Friday 29 Aug 1997 From: Subject:
Opportunity...
Dear Fellow Scientist:
This letter has been around the world at least seven times.
It has been to many major conferences. Now it has come to
you. It will bring you good fortune. This is true even if
you don't believe it. But you must follow these
instructions:
Include in your next journal article the citations below.
Remove the first citation from the list and add a citation
to your journal article at the bottom. Make ten copies and
send them to colleagues. Within one year, you will be cited
up to 10,000 times! This will
life. In addition, you will bring joy to many colleagues. Do
not break the reference loop, but send this letter on today!
Dr H received this letter and within a year after passing it
on she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Prof
M threw this letter away and was denied tenure. In Japan, Dr
I received this letter and put it aside. His article for
Transactions on Nephrology was rejected. He found the letter
and passed it on, and his article was published that year in
the New England Journal of Medicine. In the Midwest, Prof K
failed to pass on the letter, and in a budget cutback his
entire department was eliminated. This could happen to you
if you break the chain of citations.
Miller, J (1992) "Post-modern Neo-Cubism and the Wave Theory
of Light" Journal of Cognitive Artifacts, 8, 113-117
Johnson, S (1991) "Micturition in the Canid Family: The
Irresistable Pull of the Hydrant" Physics Quarterly,
33, 203-220
Anderson, R (1990) "Your Place or Mine?: An Empirical
Comparison of Two Models of Human Mating Behaviour"
Psychology Yesterday 12, 63-77
David, E (1994) "Modern Approaches to Chaotic Heuristic
Optimisation: Means of Analysing Non-Linear Intelligent
Networks with Emergent Symbolic Structure" (doctoral
dissertation, University of California at Santa Royale El
Camino del Rey Mar Vista by-the-sea) Source:
www.psych.upenn.edu