I think it's important to note why the 75 citations isn't just 75 dummies who also haven't heard of integration.

If you're writing a diabetes paper and want to use integration for your analysis (even if you are fully aware of its background), you'll be forced to justify your approach and defend it's applicability to diabetes. Far easier to say 'as per Tai et al...' and take it as given.

You see this a lot- 'we used [x] because Big Name Prof did as well [citation]'