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Originally Posted by William
As noted above there are 170 papers that support the assertion that solar magnetic cycle changes modulate planetary clouds.
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The fact that the paper has 170 references does not immediately mean that all of those references support the findings of the paper. E.g. reference #21 Damon, P.E., and P. Laut, Pattern of strange errors plagues solar activity and terrestrial climatic data, EOS Transactions 85, 370–374 (2004), hardly sounds like a paper supporting the thesis.
In all, the higher the number of references in a paper does not immediately mean the better or the more important the paper is. It might just show that the author likes to show off about how much literature (s)he read.