Oh, now here we've struck paydirt! This is an article describing analysis of the citation network of papers making a particular medical claim (a particular substance being associated with a syndrome), and how the citations lent certain papers authority even though they ultimately could be shown to have left out experimental data critical of the claim while citing data supporting it.
This is so very much the kind of project I'd like to be doing. More on it later. I've filed it under "data journalism", even though it's not, really - but it is the kind of analysis that could support journalism. I've also started a new tag "social network analysis", because this article alone has convinced me that it's a real thing and not just a buzzword.
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