Citation Practices Research Articles

‘As It Is Written’ … Where? Examining Generic Citations of Scripture in the New Testament

This article examines 33 ‘generic’ citations of Israel’s scriptures in the NT, defined as passages containing an introductory formula or other overt reference to a source, but lacking any actual quoted text. Each passage (from the gospels, Acts and Pauline epistles) is examined in terms of its citation form and particular meaning in context, and then this broader pattern of ‘generic’ citation is compared with Second Temple citation practices. Having rarely been studied collectively, these citations provide interesting insight into how the NT authors draw upon the whole of the OT – without reference to specific prooftexts – to make assertions about Israel’s history, Christology, and the church. They should be given more consideration in the broader field of biblical intertextuality.

The Use/Less Citations in Feminist Research

ABSTRACT This article points to the paradox in feminist citation practices. It provides a brief overview of the key issues at stake in feminist citational practices. By highlighting the ways in which the logic of territoriality, authority and property continues to inform the mood and mode of moralistic repair, it cautions again the reification of certain racialised and gendered bodies as the remedy, ground and supplement for feminist research ethics. Thinking through the figure of the (bio)degradable, this article asks whether it is possible to consider feminist citation as use/less.

Anchoring the First-Year Research Paper: A Pilot Study of FYW Student Citation Practices

Anchoring the First-Year Research Paper: A Pilot Study of FYW Student Citation Practices

15 years of service-dominant logic: analyzing citation practices of Vargo and Lusch (2004)

PurposeThe purpose of this article was to provide an outline of the citation practices of “Evolving to a new dominant logic for marketing” by Vargo and Lusch (2004) to identify and discuss the most prominent research topics in which citations were used and to suggest future research based on the results of the analysis.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a comprehensive framework of citation practices based on iterations of previous literature to analyze the relevant literature, which they identified by accessing, systematically and rigorously, every available contribution matching a set of criteria. The authors then categorized these contributions and highlighted the main topics of research interest in each category.FindingsThe findings identify some of the factors in the continuous development of SDL, the way this new marketing logic permeated the scientific debate, the infusion of Vargo and Lusch (2004) into several contributions framed in the new logic or justified through it, and a general perception of a default reference. Additionally, the findings highlight the main topics of research interest in each category.Research limitations/implicationsThe analysis enabled the detection of the original paper's influence through advances in service studies, pollination into other fields of research and continuous scientific debate. The authors have highlighted several avenues for research and proposed future research directions.Originality/valueThis research analyzed the effects of the spread of the SDL cornerstone article and emphasized the advantage of using an in-depth approach to the analysis of studies through a framework applied to more than 4,600 studies.

Citation practices in research article introductions: The interplay between disciplines and research methodologies

AbstractVariations in citation practices have been studied from a wide range of perspectives. Nonetheless, little research has addressed how the interplay between disciplines and research methodologies can affect the formal representation of citations in research articles. This paper, adopting a multi‐perspective design, is an attempt to fill this void by analyzing a purposive sample of 180 research article independent introductions from theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics journals, categorized into three research methodologies. Significant differences were found in these practices because of the disciplinary conventions and the research methodologies employed in the articles; however, the epistemological effects underlying research methodologies (i.e., how members of a discourse community perceive knowledge generation and use through knowledge validation and proving) were by far more evident than the disciplinary bearings.

Teaching Antiracist Citational Politics as a Project of Transformation: Lessons from the Cite Black Women Movement for White Feminist Anthropologists

AbstractThe Cite Black Women movement has opened important possibilities for community building around citational politics and praxis. For white feminist anthropologists, reckoning with how whiteness has shaped the canon within feminist anthropology is particularly important. While this necessitates broader challenges to the racist and colonial legacies within anthropology, it is essential to interrogate how whiteness continues to be privileged in the ways feminist anthropology is charted and conveyed to new generations of students. This article centers on the lessons white feminist anthropologists can learn from the Cite Black Women movement for our teaching. I argue that we must commit to building pedagogical communities of antiracist citational politics and praxis—within which we can seek guidance, inspiration, and support for this work, but that also serve as an important site for mutual accountability. Not only does this bolster our individual efforts, but it forces us to move beyond wielding inclusive citation practices as a personal accomplishment deserving of special acknowledgment or accolades.

Measuring the impact of biodiversity datasets: data reuse, citations and altmetrics

Despite growing evidence of open biodiversity data reuse by scientists, information about how data is reused and cited is rarely openly accessible from research data repositories. This study explores data citation and reuse practices in biodiversity by using openly available metadata for 43,802 datasets indexed in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and content analyses of articles citing GBIF data. Results from quantitative and content analyses suggest that even though the number of studies making use of openly available biodiversity data has been increasing steadily, best practice for data citation is not yet common. It is encouraging, however, that an increasing number of recent articles (16 out of 23 in 2019) in biodiversity cite datasets in a standard way. A content analysis of a random sample of unique citing articles (n = 100) found various types of background (n = 18) and foreground (n = 81) reuse cases for GBIF data, ranging from combining with other data sources to create species distribution modelling to software testing. This demonstrates some unique research opportunities created by open data. Among the citing articles, 27% mentioned the dataset in references and 13% in data access statements in addition to the methods section. Citation practice was inconsistent especially when a large number of subsets (12 ~ 50) were used. Even though many GBIF dataset records had altmetric scores, most posts only mentioned the articles linked to those datasets. Among the altmetric mentions of datasets, blogs can be the most informative, even though rare, and most tweets and Facebook posts were for promotional purposes.

Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing

Although a great deal has been written about citation in expert research writing, and about novice students’ acquisition of citation skills for the purposes of argumentation, little is known about the typical uses of citation in undergraduate student coursework, in different disciplines, and at different levels of study. This paper describes how typical citations patterns can be retrieved from undergraduate assignments in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, and examines the linguistic features of these patterns with reference to the types of sources cited and the different functions of citation. It reveals a wide variety of patterns and purposes, well beyond those described in student writing guides. Students’ use of citation was found to increase as they progressed through the years of undergraduate study, although citation was not an essential feature of every type of writing assignment, and was performed in different ways according to discipline. The search queries presented in the paper can be used by researchers, students, and writing tutors as a basis for further investigation into citation practices. The findings also have implications for teaching, and the training of EAP practitioners.

$$h_u$$-index: a unified index to quantify individuals across disciplines

Nowadays scientific evaluation is becoming increasingly important and necessary in many cases, such as faculty hiring, funding and promotion. Among existing evaluation metrics for individual performance, h-index is the most famous indicator and achieves a prominent role since its publication. However, h-index is inapplicable to comparing individuals from different scientific disciplines, primarily because it cannot handle the huge difference in collaboration habits and citation practices across disciplines. Such a shortcoming of h-index is rooted in its arbitrary definition, comparing two quantities with quite different scales, i.e., citation count for scientific impact and publication count for productivity. To combat this problem, we propose a new evaluation measure, $$h_u$$ -index, which unifies citation count and publication count into the same scale. We theoretically analyze the relationship between $$h_u$$ -index, h-index and other variants of h-index. We also study the behavior of $$h_u$$ -index in empirical cases and researcher ranking tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that $$h_u$$ -index has superior performance than h-index and achieves a better comparison of individuals across disciplines.

In-code citation practices in open research software libraries

• In-code citation practices in open research software libraries remain unexplored. • This paper studies the availability and consistency of in-code citations. • Findings suggest that most of the libraries studied use at least one. • Citations were missing important information and had inconsistencies. • Few libraries had a systematic method for linking references and in-code citations. While several aspects of open research software libraries have been studied, their in-code citation practices remain an unexplored area. In-code citations are citations of published scientific contributions added in the programming source code of research software libraries. In this paper, 73 such libraries are analyzed to determine the availability and consistency of in-code citations and reference sections. Findings indicate that 54 (73.9 %) of these libraries have at least one in-code citation. However, 47 had at least one incomplete citation and 89.3 % of libraries with several citations used multiple formats for citations. For reference sections, 36 of the libraries investigated in this study had at least one section. Still, inconsistencies in formats were also present as 83.3 % of the libraries with two or more sections used multiple formats for the sections, which may prevent automated programmers from indexing and collecting the list of references. Most importantly, this study investigates the availability of a systematic method that allows for the linking of references and in-code citations. Findings indicate that only six of the libraries had such a method, although many did not fully implement the method.

Declining citation accuracy in polar research

Abstract Accurate citation practices are important to ensure a robust knowledge base and overall trustworthy academic enterprise. The prevalence of poor citation practices has been assessed in multiple fields, resulting in estimates of inaccurate citations ranging typically between 15% and 25%. Here, we assessed the accuracy of citations in research articles extracted from 11 journals with a polar sciences focus. Thirty percent of citations from recent articles (published between 2018 and 2019) and 26 % of citations between 1980 and 2019 were found to be inaccurate. We found no evidence for differences in citation accuracy between the journals assessed, or effects on citation accuracy associated with the number of authors, number of references, position of references or if a citation was a self-citation or not. Importantly, we present evidence for a decline in citation accuracy between 1980 and 2019 in polar sciences. Citation practices are unlikely to improve unless journals provide incentives for scholars to be more meticulous, and we recommend active monitoring of citation accuracy and citation appropriateness by reviewers and editorial staff.

Citation and Referencing Support at an Academic Library: Exploring Student and Faculty Perspectives on Authority and Effectiveness

Libraries expend considerable time and effort in providing instructional resources to help students learn the “mechanics” of citation and referencing. However, there are few studies that examine the efficacy of these resources. Using focus group methodology, the authors explored student and faculty perspectives about citation practices through their use of the library’s online referencing guide. It was found that faculty struggled to instill “real world” meaning for students around academic integrity practices, while students reported feeling confused and somewhat intimidated about the scholarly writing process. Findings reveal the importance of situating referencing within a positive, holistic approach to academic integrity that emphasizes critical thinking and student autonomy.

О НЕКОРРЕКТНОМ И НЕРЕПРЕЗЕНТАТИВНОМ ЦИТИРОВАНИИ В ОБЗОРЕ S.J. JIA, F. YANG “HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVE COPPER/DIAMOND COMPOSITES: STATE OF THE ART” И ДРУГИХ РАБОТАХ

Several papers published in Elsevier and Springer journals in 2020–2021, in which there were numerous violations of standards concerning citation practice in scientific papers, are analyzed. These papers deal with high-thermal-conductive diamond/metal composites. The examples under consideration mainly concern composites prepared via deposition of tungsten coatings onto diamond particles. The revealed errors and distortions in citations are indicated and classed. The examples given may be useful to a wide range of readers (authors, reviewers, editors) as illustrations of the data distortion encountered in scientific publications due to incorrect citation

Taking Our Space: Service, Scholarship, and Radical Citation Practice

This essay builds on the work of Professor Meera Deo's book Unequal Profession and documents hegemonic forces within law schools that discredit and disenfranchise underrepresented faculty, including women of color. The essay provides a roadmap for administrators and fellow faculty to undertake immediate and proactive measures to mitigate disparate impact experienced by women of color and other underrepresented faculty.

Al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana and the Size of Knowledge

Abstract This paper first surveys the structure, content and purpose of al-Āmidī’s al-Muwāzana, the largest work of poetic criticism of the fourth/tenth century, then its medieval reception, which grants it quasi-encyclopaedic authority. Modern reception has often dehistoricized it by viewing it only as criticism, but book studies suggest broader contexts of interpretation. Looser than “encyclopaedia,” the notion of the “big book,” like those by al-Āmidī’s contemporaries and neighbours Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and al-Tanūkhī, fits well with al-Muwāzana. The chronology of al-Āmidī’s life, and the idea of his “big book” as a highly personal work of lifelong scholarship, endorse M.Z. Sallām’s reading of al-Muwāzana as an intellectual ego-document. Finally, the citation practices of fourth/tenth-century “big books” anticipate aspects of the “archival” outlook of Mamluk scholarship and suggest how the “big books” discussed here sought to validate their own versions of cultural memory.

Acting hot or not? Testing the citing to show-off hypothesis

PurposeCitation analysis as a method for studying scientific communication is frequently criticized for being based on biased citation practices. Questionable motives for the reference selection have been suggested including the claim that authors tend to cite hot papers in order to show-off. In this study, the authors investigate the claim that authors tend to cite the recent literature in order to show-off.Design/methodology/approachFollowing Moed and Garfield (2004), the authors investigate the claim by analyzing the proportion of recent references as a function of the length of the reference lists of citing papers. The authors analyze reference lists of citing papers in the fields of biomedical engineering, economics, medicine, psychology and library and information science between 2010 and 2019. From each of these fields, a number of journals are included in the analysis to represent the field. In total, 42 journals are included in the analyses comprising a selection of almost 65,000 journal articles. The proportion of recent references is calculated using two citation windows. The proportion of recent references as a function of the length of the reference lists is calculated through simple linear regressions to predict the share of recent references based on the number of references.FindingsThe results of the linear regressions indicate that in most cases, there are a statistically significant relationship between the share of recent references and the number of references. This study’s results show that when authors display selective referencing behavior, references to the recent literature tend to be only marginally increased, and some results even display the opposite tendency (marginally overciting the older literature).Originality/valueThis study of the claim that authors tend to cite the recent literature in order to show-off does not confirm the hypothesis.

Citation Context Analysis as a Method for Conducting Rigorous and Impactful Literature Reviews

Citation context analysis is a detailed and rigorous form of literature review that goes beyond traditional narrative and systematic reviews to better understand the impact of seminal works and influential authors. We discuss the types of questions citation context analyses can answer and provide a set of guidelines for how to effectively conduct them. Citation context analysis holds promise for enabling a more systematic assessment of how theories are used, empirically tested, and critiqued by subsequent citing authors. This has implications for both theory development and testing, and for the improvement of citation practices within the field of organizational studies and the social and physical sciences more broadly.

Pratiques de citation en sciences de la communication.

L’objectif de cette etude est de donner un apercu des pratiques de citation des chercheurs publiant dans neuf revues francaises en sciences de la communication. Notre analyse comprend un total de 77 566 citations tirees a partir de 3 195 articles publies de 1992 a 2016. Nous discutons dans cet article des supports utilises et nous montrons que les monographies et les articles de periodiques constituent le principal mode de diffusion des connaissances en sciences de la communication. Nos resultats mettent en evidence que la liste des revues francaises et etrangeres les plus citees est sensiblement differente de celle utilisee par les instances francaises des sciences de l’information et de la communication. Nous avons egalement constate que les pratiques de citation ne varient pas considerablement entre les neuf revues.

‘It’s not plagiarism, it’s a bad use of power phrasing’: Assessment of home and international student (mis)understandings of citation practice

ABSTRACT This study documents the development of an assessment (a multiple-choice test with free text rationale) built into an academic skills module over a 2 year period. Initially introduced as a credit bearing assessment to promote student engagement, disappointing results in the first year prompted a further intervention in year 2 with an additional lecture and a series of online resources provided. The results of the assessment from both years were examined; firstly, to determine the success of the intervention, and secondly, the free text rationales in an attempt identify aspects of academic practice that proved difficult for students. With a diverse cohort, the opportunity to examine distinctions between home and international students was also explored. The results indicated that upon the introduction of the intervention the pass rate for the assessment increased from 56% to 80%, however a qualitative analysis of the free text student rationales highlighted persistent underlying problems.

Knowledge flow in Argentinian English language teaching: a look at citation practices and perceptions

ABSTRACT Teacher research can be defined as research carried out by teachers for teachers. This type of educational research emphasises a transformative perspective through which teachers become agents of change. In the case of teacher research, it is hoped that findings resonate with other teachers in the broad contexts in which they originate and that there is impact, knowledge flow and knowledge democracy. This requires findings to be accessible for teachers to locate so colleagues are aware of what is produced in their own professional context. The aim of this article is to understand the extent to which studies authored by Argentinian teacher-researchers in English language teaching (ELT) make an impact in the local ELT professional community of practice by tracking Argentinian ELT author references in their outputs. Data were collected from a corpus consisting of 98 articles published in two local venues between 2014 and 2018 and a questionnaire completed by 65 authors included in the corpus. Findings reveal weak impact and knowledge flow within the Argentinian ELT professional community of practice caused by hegemonic practices and a tendency to value works situated in the UK/US.