Comments on: Citations & the Missing Link http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/07/26/the-missing-link/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:31:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Philip Davis http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/07/26/the-missing-link/#comment-625 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:06:46 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.wordpress.com/?p=195#comment-625 It should be mentioned that using ISI indexes as a tool for discovering copied erroneous citations may be problematic, for the reason that ISI routinely corrects citations in its database. Random errors may be standardized to look like more common citation errors and give the impression that a unique citation error may have been copied.

The Broadus (1983) article is a real treat. Below is the full citation and DOI.

Broadus, Robert N. “An Investigation of the Validity of Bibliographic Citations.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 34, no. 2 (1983): 132-35.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630340206

]]> By: Joseph J. Esposito http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/07/26/the-missing-link/#comment-611 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:20:23 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.wordpress.com/?p=195#comment-611 This is a very interesting post. I would like to add to it that the automation of parts of the scholarly process are likely to alter the use of citations, suggested reading lists, etc. The technology now exists to search not just on a few keywords (the typical Google search uses three terms), but by inputting queries of unlimited size, which are likely to take the form of the abstracts of articles or even the full text of the articles themselves. This will in turn yield search results that are essentially a map of a particular area of research, with the article in question (that is, the one used as an input query) sitting at the center. While such a search does not imply that an author is recommending a particular resource, it does provide a new and valuable insight, a portrait of all related works. I anticipate that this technique will erode the hold that human-generated citations currently have on measurements of scholarly importance.

Joe Esposito

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