Jackson Kent, Porrino Jack A, Tan Virak, Daluiski Aaron
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
J Hand Surg Am. 2003 May;28(3):377-80. doi: 10.1053/jhsu.2003.50085.
An accurate listing of cited references in journal articles is important for the reader. Many studies have revealed errors in the references cited in a variety of subspecialty journals. We believe that a similar amount of errors, relative to other subspecialty journals, exists in the Journal of Hand Surgery.
One hundred randomly selected references from each of the 1985 and 1995 Journal of Hand Surgery volumes were analyzed for accuracy of the journal name, title, author name(s), year, volume, and page number(s). References were considered without error if they matched the original article exactly.
In 1985, 30% of the references examined contained one or more errors as compared with 11% in 1995.
These error rates are similar to those found in studies of other biomedical journals. Perhaps the decrease in the quantity of errors present in 1995 versus that of 1985 is related to the implementation of a more stringent, revised set of instructions to submitting authors imposed in 1995.
准确列出期刊文章中引用的参考文献对读者而言至关重要。许多研究已揭示各类专科期刊中引用参考文献存在的错误。我们认为,《手外科杂志》中存在与其他专科期刊数量相当的错误。
从《手外科杂志》1985年卷和1995年卷中各随机选取100条参考文献,分析其期刊名称、标题、作者姓名、年份、卷号和页码的准确性。若参考文献与原文完全匹配,则视为无误。
1985年,30%的被检查参考文献包含一个或多个错误,而1995年这一比例为11%。
这些错误率与其他生物医学期刊研究中的错误率相似。1995年与1985年相比错误数量的减少或许与1995年对投稿作者实施了一套更严格、修订后的指南有关。