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An investigation of the validity of bibliographic citations
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Although 23% of these citing papers made the same error as did Wilson, a further perusal of the evidence raises considerable doubt as to whether fraudulent use was intended, there is provided an opportunity to test the charge that writers frequently lift their bibliographic references from other publications without consulting the original sources.Abstract:
Edward O. Wilson, in his famous work, Sociobiology, The New Synthesis [9], makes reference to a pair of articles by W. D. Hamilton, but misquotes the articles' title. No less than 148 later papers make reference to both Wilson's book and Hamilton's articles, by title. Thus, there is provided an opportunity to test the charge, made by some critics, that writers frequently lift their bibliographic references from other publications without consulting the original sources. Although 23% of these citing papers made the same error as did Wilson, a further perusal of the evidence raises considerable doubt as to whether fraudulent use was intended.read more
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What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior
Lutz Bornmann,Hans-Dieter Daniel +1 more
TL;DR: The general tendency of the results of the empirical studies makes it clear that citing behavior is not motivated solely by the wish to acknowledge intellectual and cognitive influences of colleague scientists, since the individual studies reveal also other, in part non‐scientific, factors that play a part in the decision to cite.
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Bibliometric methods: pitfalls and possibilities.
TL;DR: Bibliometric studies have many pitfalls; technical skill, critical sense and a precise knowledge about the examined scientific domain are required to carry out and interpret bibliometric investigations correctly.
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Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing
TL;DR: A randomized controlled trial of open access publishing, involving 36 participating journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, reports on the effects of free access on article downloads and citations.
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How can we investigate citation behavior?: a study of reasons for citing literature in communication
TL;DR: Authors' motivations for citing documents are addressed through a literature review and an empirical study as discussed by the authors, where the authors of two highly cited authors in the discipline of communication were identified and all of the authors who cited them during the period 1995-1997 were surveyed.
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The New Synthesis.
TL;DR: This chapter discusses sociobiology's significance; sociologist Pierre L. van den Berghe explores its ethical aspects; and anthropologist Anthony Leeds offers a sharp but detailed critique of both Wilson and his more extreme detractors.
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The new synthesis
TL;DR: The sociobiology of animals below man has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the Special (or restricted) discipline and the General (or general) discipline.
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The norms of citation behavior: Prolegomena to the footnote
TL;DR: The state of the authors' knowledge is reviewed, questions are raised, and suggestions and hypotheses for studying the relationships between footnoting practices among scientists and the social system of science are proposed.
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Information, Communication, Knowledge
TL;DR: At the British Association meeting in Exeter last month, Professor Ziman addressed the section devoted to general topics on the question of how scientific information becomes public knowledge, implying that the system of communication is not as rotten as some like to think.