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Title: | Inaccurate citations in biomedical journalism: Effect on the impact factor of the American Journal of Roentgenology | Authors: | Karabulut, Nevzat | Keywords: | Bibliographic information Bibliometry Biomedical journalism Impact factor Inaccurate citation bibliometrics citation analysis Conference Paper journal impact factor measurement accuracy measurement error medical literature publication publishing Web of Science bibliographic database international cooperation radiology statistics and numerical data utilization Bibliometrics Databases, Bibliographic Internationality Journal Impact Factor Periodicals as Topic Radiology |
Publisher: | American Roentgen Ray Society | Abstract: | OBJECTIVE. The aim of this study is to investigate the frequency of incorrect citations and its effects on the impact factor of a specific biomedical journal: The American Journal of Roentgenology. MATERIALS AND METHODS. The Cited Reference Search function of Thomson Reuters' Web of Science database (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information's Web of Knowledge database) was used to identify erroneous citations. This was done by entering the journal name into the Cited Work field and entering "2011-2012" into the Cited Year(s) field. The errors in any part of the inaccurately cited references (e.g., author names, title, year, volume, issue, and page numbers) were recorded, and the types of errors (i.e., absent, deficient, or mistyped) were analyzed. Erroneous citations were corrected using the Suggest a Correction function of the Web of Science database. The effect of inaccurate citations on the impact factor of the AJR was calculated. RESULTS. Overall, 183 of 1055 citable articles published in 2011-2012 were inaccurately cited 423 times (mean [± SD], 2.31 ± 4.67 times; range, 1-44 times). Of these 183 articles, 110 (60.1%) were web-only articles and 44 (24.0%) were print articles. The most commonly identified errors were page number errors (44.8%) and misspelling of an author's name (20.2%). Incorrect citations adversely affected the impact factor of the AJR by 0.065 in 2012 and by 0.123 in 2013. CONCLUSION. Inaccurate citations are not infrequent in biomedical journals, yet they can be detected and corrected using the Web of Science database. Although the accuracy of references is primarily the responsibility of authors, the journal editorial office should also define a periodic inaccurate citation check task and correct erroneous citations to reclaim unnecessarily lost credit. © 2017 American Roentgen Ray Society. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/9089 https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.16.16984 |
ISSN: | 0361-803X |
Appears in Collections: | PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Tıp Fakültesi Koleksiyonu WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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