Citation accuracy in environmental science journals

Lopresti, Robert

doi:10.1007/s11192-010-0293-6

Cited by 21 publications

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“…7 Lopresti points out that even slight changes to authors' names, such as the omission of a middle initial, can impede the tracing of authors through citations to their work. 8 Many studies compare journals within a discipline. For example, Fenton studied four otolaryngology journals and found "the higher the impact factor for the journal, the lower the number of errors detected in its papers."…”

Section: Citation Accuracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite and Quote Their Sources?

Genzinger¹,

Wills²

2017

RUSQ

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The practice of citing references is integral to scholarship. This paper focuses on three prominent journals for library science: College and Research Libraries, Library Resources and Technical Services, and Reference and User Services Quarterly. Errors in both citations and quotations were found in all three journals, although no statistically significant differences among journals were discovered. Citation errors of less than 10 percent were found for all three journals, while in total, 30.3 percent of quotations were judged to be questionable in some way. The paper includes recommendations for authors, editors and librarians. It also recommends further study of errors in quotations, which appear more troubling than those in citations.

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Section: Citation Accuracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite and Quote Their Sources?

Genzinger¹,

Wills²

2017

RUSQ

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“…A study of citations in social work journals found an error rate of about 41 per cent (Spivey and Wilks, 2004). Environmental science journals had an error rate of about 25 per cent (Lopresti, 2010). Citation accuracy should be critical in the medical field, but mistakes are common there as well.…”

Section: Citation Errors Ratesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A modern, simplified citation style and student response

Lanning

2016

Reference Services Review

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to see if there is a need for and an interest in a modernized and simplified citation style (SCS). Design/methodology/approach -Students in two sections of English 1010 were given a brief training in SCS and asked to use SCS and MLA citation styles, respectively, in their next two assignments. Students were surveyed afterwards about their preferences. Findings -Students preferred using the presented SCS over MLA by a large margin. This was not a surprise. Citation styles are difficult to master. Research limitations/implications -This is a small qualitative study, and the result are not generalizable to a larger population, but the implications suggest that a larger study is warranted. Practical implications -This paper shows that there is a need for a more modern citation style, one that embraces technology and moves forward from the print bibliographic tradition. Originality/value -There are many articles in the literature about citations, but few address modernizing and simplifying citation styles, and none make a proposal for such a style.

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“…The highest percentage of inactive URL's was found in the .com, top-level domain followed by the .gov and .org domains. Lopresti (2010) examined citations in five leading Environmental Science journals for accuracy. As many as 647 (24.41%) of the 2650 citations checked were found to contain errors.…”

Section: Decay Of Online Citationsmentioning

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“…Previous studies have also showed that many URLs cited in research articles have disappeared because of several reasons (Aronsky, Madani, Carnevale, Duda, & Feyder, 2007;Carnevale & Aronsky, 2005;Goh & Ng, 2007;Lopresti, 2010;McCown et al, 2005;Sellitto, 2004). Keeping in view the disappearance nature of URL citations, this study made an attempt to investigate the availability and decay online citations cited in Science and Social Science open access journals published during 2000e2009.…”

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Decay and half-life period of online citations cited in open access journals

Kumar

Kumar²

2012

The International Information & Library Review

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This study investigates the decay and half-life of online citations cited in four open access journals published between 2000 and 2009. A total of 1158 online citations cited in 1086 research articles published in two science and social science journals spanning a period of 10 years (2000e2009) were extracted. Study found that 24.58% (267 out of 1086) of articles had online citations and these articles contained a substantially very less number of online citations (2.98%) compared to previous study results. 30.56% (26% in Science and 52.73% in Social Science) of online citations were not accessible and remaining 69.44% of online citations were still accessible. The 'HTTP 404 error message-page not found' was the overwhelming message encountered and represented 67.79% of all HTTP message. Domains associated with .ac and .net had higher successful access rates while .org and .com/.co had lowest successful access rates. The half-life of online citations was computed to be approximately 11.5 years and 9.07 years in Science and Social science journal articles respectively. ª

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Citation accuracy in environmental science journals

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite and Quote Their Sources?

Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite and Quote Their Sources?

A modern, simplified citation style and student response

Decay and half-life period of online citations cited in open access journals

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