MICROCHIMERISM: INACCURATE LITERATURE CITATIONS

Microchimerism: inaccurate literature citations.

Recent evidence suggests that the leukocytes (including stem cells) contained in organs migrate after transplantation and produce persistent chimerism, which is essential for sustained survival of the allografts (1, 2). With this information, we proposed as an encompassing principle that success after either clinical bone marrow or organ transplantation "(whether described as) tolerance or graf...

Literature citations in the Internet era.

J. A. EVANS’S REPORT “ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION AND THE NARROWING OF SCIENCE AND scholarship” (18 July, p. 395) suggests that (i) the average age of citations to scientific papers dropped over the years as more electronic papers became accessible and (ii) the citations are concentrated on a smaller proportion of papers and journals. Such conclusions are not warranted by Evans’s data. To measure th...

Incorrect citations: a comparison of library literature with medical literature.

APPENDIX 26 Literature Citations by Author

Annotation Guidelines for Citations in Scientific Literature