Comment by fuzzfactor

>Not reading your own references

This could be considered in degrees.

Like when you only need a single table from another researcher's 25-page publication, you would cite it to be thorough but it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't even read very much of their other text. Perhaps not any at all.

Maybe one of the very helpful things is not just reading every reference in detail, but actually looking up every one in detail to begin with?