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Article
Citation Accuracy in Environmental Science Journals
Scientometrics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2010
Keywords
- Citations,
- Citation accuracy,
- Environmental science journals
Disciplines
Abstract
Citations in five leading environmental science journals were examined for accuracy. 24.41% of the 2,650 citations checked were found to contain errors. The largest category of errors was in the author field. Of the five journals Conservation Biology had the lowest percentage of citations with errors and Climatic Change had the highest. Of the citations with errors that could be checked in Web of Science, 18.18% of the errors caused a search for the cited article to fail. Citations containing electronic links had fewer errors than those without.
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Bibliographical citations; Bibliometrics; Environmental sciences--Periodicals
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
“Citation accuracy in environmental science journals.” Scientometrics. (a peer-reviewed
journal) 85 (3) 2010. 647-655, DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0293-6