Although the possibility of referring or citing on-line data from publications is seen at least theoretically as an important means to provide immediate testable proof or simple illustration of a line of reasoning, the practice has not been wide-spread yet and no extensive experience has been gained about the possibilities and problems of referring to raw data-sets. This paper makes a case to i...

Peer-reviewed articles are the foundation of modern ecological science. An essential component of most ecology papers is a clear, well-crafted argument that builds upon the existing research base within the subject area in question and substantiates important assumptions, technical information and opinions by accurately identifying (i.e. citing) the source material. Despite the central role of ...

A citing sentence is one that appears in a scientific article and cites previous work. Citing sentences have been studied and used in many applications. For example, they have been used in scientific paper summarization, automatic survey generation, paraphrase identification, and citation function classification. Citing sentences that cite multiple papers are common in scientific writing. This ...

introduction: the internet and other digital sources of information are widely used tools for research. citations allow readers to locate and further explore sources you consulted, show the depth and scope of your research and give credit to authors for their ideas. in this study, documenting electronic sources in journals of medical sciences universities in 1378-81 was investigated.’ methods: ...

OBJECTIVES Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide important information about the impact of treatment from the patients' perspective. However, missing PRO data may compromise the interpretability and value of the findings. We aimed to report: (1) a non-technical summary of problems caused by missing PRO data; and (2) a systematic review by collating strategies to: (A) minimise rates of missin...