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I wonder if there’s a common author or two in those references that would serve to identify the anonymous reviewers.
If the original papers are niche enough, it’s all but guaranteed…
i am unable to understand how that works; please help.
if these are indeed references to assertions made in their paper, how can they be irrelevant?
Basically, the anonymous peer reviewers told the authors “you should cite these additional papers in your work”. It’s expected that any such recommendations would be relevant to the topic at hand, and therefore are worth bringing attention to, but the authors clearly do not agree that they have anything to do with their research.
