Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2010

Keywords

Citations, Citation accuracy, Environmental science journals

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.

Publication Title

Scientometrics

Volume

85

Issue

3

First Page

647

Last Page

655

Required Publisher's Statement

© Springer International Publishing AG, Part of Springer Science+Business Media The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0293-6

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Bibliographical citations; Bibliometrics; Environmental sciences--Periodicals

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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