Reference Accuracy in <i>Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport</i>: A 30-Year Follow-Up to Stull et al. (1991)

Logan, Samuel W.

doi:10.1080/02701367.2020.1853019

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“…There are two types of problematic citations: inaccurate citations and plagiarized citations. Inaccurate citations refer to mistakes in citation entries, such as wrong author names, publication venues, titles, years, volumes, issues and page numbers (Logan, 2021). Inaccurate citations appear when authors are merely negligent when entering citation information and, as a result, make mistakes.…”

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Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research

Serenko

Dumay

Hsiao

et al. 2021

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PurposeIn scholarly publications, citations play an essential epistemic role in creating and disseminating knowledge. Conversely, the use of problematic citations impedes the growth of knowledge, contaminates the knowledge base and disserves science. This study investigates the presence of problematic citations in the works of business ethics scholars.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigated two types of problematic citations: inaccurate citations and plagiarized citations. For this, 1,200 randomly selected citations from three leading business ethics journals were assessed based on: (1) referenced journal errors, (2) article title errors and (3) author name errors. Other papers that replicated the same title errors were identified.FindingsOf the citations in the examined business ethics journals, 21.42% have at least one error. Of particular concern are the citation errors in article titles, where 3.75% of examined citations have minor errors and another 3.75% display major errors – 7.5% in total. Two-thirds of minor and major title errors were repeatedly replicated in previous and ensuing publications, which confirms the presence of citation plagiarism. An average article published in a business ethics journal contains at least three plagiarized citations. Even though business ethics fares well compared to other disciplines, a situation where every fifth citation is problematic is unacceptable.Practical implicationsBusiness ethics scholars are not immune to the use of problematic citations, and it is unlikely that attempting to improve researchers' awareness of the unethicality of this behavior will bring a desirable outcome.Originality/valueIdentifying that problematic citations exist in the business ethics literature is novel because it is expected that these researchers would not condone this practice.

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Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research

Serenko

Dumay

Hsiao

et al. 2021

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Reference Accuracy of Articles Published in Volume 11 (2023) of the Journal of Motor Learning and Development

Logan

2024

Journal of Motor Learning and Development

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Reference accuracy of primary studies published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals: A scoping review

Logan

Hussong-Christian

Case

et al. 2023

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Objective. The objective of this scoping review was to identify key characteristics of primary research studies in peer-reviewed journals about reference accuracy. Characteristics of studies include the publication year, field of study, journal name and publication year of verified references, number of references verified, reference elements examined, definition of major, intermediate, and minor errors, whether punctuation or typographical errors were counted, overall error rate, major, intermediate, and minor error rates, and most common error type. Introduction. Reference accuracy has been studied across several decades and remains a persistent issue in peer-reviewed publications. Reference accuracy is typically reported as an error rate that represents the proportion of references with at least one error. Inclusion criteria for this scoping review included primary studies published in peer-reviewed journals that verified references in articles. Methods. Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Medline via EBSCOhost, and Web of Science were searched with final searches conducted in all three databases on November 26, 2022. No grey literature sources were searched given the focus of the project on peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Results. A total of 105 studies were included. The overall error rate across all studies was 32.7%. The error rates within specific fields of study were relatively similar. There is a lack of clarity about whether studies counted punctuation or typographical errors. The most common error was related to author names. Conclusions. There is a lack of studies to understand the most effective means to increase reference accuracy that are feasible to implement on a wide scale. Future research is warranted to understand how best to improve reference accuracy across fields of study.

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Reference Accuracy in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport: A 30-Year Follow-Up to Stull et al. (1991)

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research

Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research

Reference Accuracy of Articles Published in Volume 11 (2023) of the Journal of Motor Learning and Development

Reference accuracy of primary studies published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals: A scoping review

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