Using citations correctly in wildlife literature

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...

Using Prior Information Derived from Citations in Literature Search

Abstract Researchers spent a large amount of their time searching through an ever increasing number of scientific articles. Although users of scientific search engines prefer the ranking of results according to the number of citations a publication has received, it is never investigated whether this notion of authorativeness could also benefit more traditional and objective measures. Is it also...

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...

Annotation Guidelines for Citations in Scientific Literature

Predictors of citations in the urological literature.

To assess the factors associated with increased citation rates in the urological literature by reviewing articles published in the four major urological journals to help authors improve the impact of their work. A random sample of 200 original research articles published between January and June 2004 was analysed from The Journal of Urology, Urology, European Urology and BJU International. Stud...