alafactor

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I've published in some well-respected, but not highest-tier, journals (think impact factor ~ 5-7), where this was absolutely the case. You could very often identify the reviewer by who the corresponding author of the twenty papers they asked you to cite was. Perhaps it's field dependent, my field (chemistry) was not always as, shall we say, ethical as some of the other fields.

alafactor

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I've always liked the idea that it's something like a state vector in a vector space with a "good" subspace and a "bad" subspace. There's a projection onto the good subspace to yield a (lower-dimensional) vector without the bad components, which is then perhaps embedded in another higher-dimensional state space associated with the afterlife. A fun toy model if nothing else.

Clearly I spend too much time thinking about vector spaces.