Department of Dermatology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2009 Sep-Oct;75(5):488-91. doi: 10.4103/0378-6323.55392.
Progress in science takes place when investigators build on the work of others. Therefore, in scientific communications, it is very important that others' work is correctly noted and understood. Cited references have been found to be inaccurate in every journal in which they have been examined.
To analyze references cited in articles published in Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology for their citation and quotation precision as an indicator of the quality of articles.
Twelve citation and five quotation errors were identified and defined. Fifty cited references were selected randomly from the May-June 2008 issue of the journal. For these citations, we obtained 44 full texts of papers and two abstracts. In one case, only citation errors could be verified from the Internet. Three citations of books could not be verified. Thus, citation errors were examined in 47 and quotation errors in 46 citations.
Thirteen cited references (28.3%; 95% confidence interval [CI] 15.3-41.3%) were error-free. Twenty-eight citations (59.6%; 95% CI 45.5-73.6%) contained citation errors and 20 (43.5%; 95% CI 29.2-57.8%) quotation errors.
RESULTS of this pilot study suggest that improving accuracy of the references is important. Solutions to this problem are suggested.
科学的进步发生在研究人员在他人工作的基础上进行研究的时候。因此，在科学交流中，正确记录和理解他人的工作非常重要。在每个检查过的期刊中，都发现参考文献是不准确的。
分析《印度皮肤病学、性病学和麻风病杂志》上发表的文章中引用的参考文献，以评估文章的质量，其引用和引述的准确性是一个重要指标。
确定并定义了 12 种引用和 5 种引述错误。从该杂志 2008 年 5 月至 6 月的期中随机选择 50 篇被引参考文献。对于这些引文，我们获得了 44 篇论文的全文和 2 篇摘要。在一种情况下，只能从互联网上验证引文错误。有 3 本图书的引文无法验证。因此，我们检查了 47 条引文的引用错误和 46 条引文的引述错误。
有 13 篇参考文献（28.3%；95%置信区间[CI] 15.3-41.3%）是无错误的。28 篇引文（59.6%；95% CI 45.5-73.6%）包含引用错误，20 篇引文（43.5%；95% CI 29.2-57.8%）包含引述错误。
这项初步研究的结果表明，提高参考文献的准确性很重要。本文还提出了解决这些问题的建议。
