Effectiveness of a Reference Accuracy Strategy for Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Speck, Kirsten; Schneider, Barbara

doi:10.1097/01.nne.0000435272.47774.51

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“…There have been few studies in nursing since this time. Speck and St Pierre Schneider 13 analyzed the reference accuracy of journal articles authored by faculty in their school of nursing before and after a copyeditor was hired to edit faculty manuscripts. Of 36 articles in the study, there were fewer major errors in the copyediting group (1 error/10 citations) than the group without a review by the copyeditor (4 errors/10 citations).…”

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Exploring the Accuracy of Cited References in a Selected Data Set of Nursing Journal Articles

Nicoll

Oermann

Carter‐Templeton

et al. 2021

Advances in Nursing Science

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Accuracy of cited references in scholarly publications gives credit to original authors and offers information for readers to access sources for additional review. Errors in this foundational information can, at a minimum, create confusion and additional burden for consumers; at worst, these errors can make it impossible to locate the original work. For systematic and other types of reviews, finding relevant studies is critical for comprehensiveness and accuracy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of cited references in a curated data set of 100 articles from 100 different nursing journals. From these articles, a sample of references for analysis (n = 666) was created. From this total, only 8 references (1.3%) could not be retrieved at all. Small numbers of references (≤3%) had errors in the author name, journal title, article title, or year, but these did not prevent retrieval. These small numbers suggest that use of current technology including electronic databases and reference management software has improved overall accuracy in reference lists. An unexpected finding was the discovery of enhanced reference lists for online articles at publisher sites. These provide at least 1 and as many as 5 direct links to cited articles, thus increasing accuracy and ease of retrieval. Implications for authors, editors, and publishers are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Accuracy of Cited References in a Selected Data Set of Nursing Journal Articles

Nicoll

Oermann

Carter‐Templeton

et al. 2021

Advances in Nursing Science

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“…In most cases, published documents are obtained using bibliographic databases such as PubMed, CINAHL, or Google Scholar. The citation information needs to be accurate to locate the abstract or full-text article ( Masic, 2013 ; Speck & St. Pierre Schneider, 2013 ). Although bibliographic management software such as Zotero or EndNote helps authors prepare their citations and references based on a specific style, it is up to the author to ensure that the reference is complete and accurate ( Chinn, 2016 ; Oermann et al, 2018 ).…”

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Guidance Provided to Authors on Citing and Formatting References in Nursing Journals

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Reference citations should be accurate, complete, and presented in a consistent format. This study analyzed information provided to authors on preparing citations and references for manuscripts submitted to nursing journals (n = 209). Half of the journals used the American Psychological Association reference style. Slightly more than half provided examples of how to cite articles and books; there were fewer examples of citing websites and online journals. Suggestions on improving accuracy of references are discussed.

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“…Such errors have been investigated in numerous research areas (Spivey and Wilks 2004;Davies 2012): medical sciences (biomedicine, biomedical informatics, orthopedics, general surgery, otolaryngology, emergency medicine, nursing, burns, anatomy, public health, and veterinary medicine); entomology; psychology (counseling psychology, and experimental psychology); social work; library and information science; business and economics; and clinical chemistry. 1 Thus, the bibliographical material used is most often published in peer-reviewed journals (Speck and St. Pierre Schneider 2013) specializing in specific research areas (Davies 2012;Fenton et al 2000;George and Robbins 1994;Montenegro et al 2021). Rarely, the reference accuracy of a single highly cited journal article is examined (Liang, Zhong, and Rousseau 2014).…”

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Misreferencing Practice of Scientists: Inside Researchers’ Sociological and Bibliometric Profiles

Sauvayre

2022

Social Epistemology

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Scientists, as human beings, sometimes make mistakes. The aim of this case study was to examine the misreferencing practice of scientists. Citations of two documents about the neuroimaging of a dead salmon were collected. A total of 173 references were extracted from Google Scholar and analyzed by both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings reveal a reference error rate of 93.1%, involving 419 authors. Sociological and bibliometric data about the authors were collected and revealed that referencing errors can be committed by all types of researchers. Further, a major referencing error was discovered in 22.5% of the citing documents, involving 121 authors, that is, the citation of a poster as if it were an article published in a prestigious journal. This major error was committed by the more prolific and recognized researchers. The higher the first author's number of citations, number of publications or h-index, the more major reference errors (citing a "ghost" paper) were committed. Nevertheless, the ScienceDirect database bears some responsibility, as it indexed abstracts of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting as journal articles that had never been published in the prestigious NeuroImage journal. Finally, this case study raises epistemological concerns about research and its dissemination.

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Effectiveness of a Reference Accuracy Strategy for Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring the Accuracy of Cited References in a Selected Data Set of Nursing Journal Articles

Exploring the Accuracy of Cited References in a Selected Data Set of Nursing Journal Articles

Guidance Provided to Authors on Citing and Formatting References in Nursing Journals

Misreferencing Practice of Scientists: Inside Researchers’ Sociological and Bibliometric Profiles

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