Hidden dangers of a citation culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12858232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | PA Todd (National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Richard J Ladle (0000-0003-3200-3946, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 13-16 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1611-8014 • E-ISSN: 1863-5415 |
| Publisher | I nt er-R es ea rc h (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.3354/esep00091 |
| OpenAlex | W2000693957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 9 |
The influence of the journal impact factor and the effect of a 'citation culture' on science and scientists have been discussed extensively (Lawrence 2007; Curr Biol 17:R583-585). Nevertheless, many still believe that the number of citations a paper receives provides some measure of its quality. This belief may be unfounded, however, as there are 2 substantial areas of error that can distort a citation count or any metric based on a citation count. One is the deliberate manipulation of the system by scientists trying to ensure the highest possible number of cites to their papers; this has been examined elsewhere The second area of inaccuracy is inherent to how papers are cited, indexed and searched for. It is this latter, lesser known, source of error that we will investigate here
Bibliometrics · Citation · Impact factor · Index (typography · Library science · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World Wide Web · Academic Writing and Publishing · Computer Science · Law · Scientific Computing and Data Management · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Signs of epistemic disruption
Tracking a “radioactive tracer”
Journal visibility, self-citation, and reference limits
A taxonomy of motives to cite
Control by numbers
Introduction Factors and Indices Are One Thing, Deciding Who Is Scholarly, Why They Are Scholarly, and the Relative Value of Their Scholarship Is Something Else Entirely
New managerialism, neoliberalism and ranking
Explorative Visualization of Citation Patterns in Social Network Research
Ambiguity, Bias, and Compromise
Citation indexing, its theory and application in science, technology, and humanities
Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty
Extinction risk from climate change
The siege of science
Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis
Escape from the impact factor
Using a balanced approach to bibliometrics
Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates
Scientists and the media
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |