Shriners Hospital for Children, Greenville, SC 29605, USA.
J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2010 May;92(5):1155-61. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.I.00063.
Reference accuracy of articles published in the biomedical literature is determined by the presence of citation and quotation errors. A recent review demonstrated that the median citation error rate per biomedical journal was 39%, and the median quotation error rate per journal was 20%. Reference accuracy in pediatric orthopaedic articles has not been previously reported, to our knowledge.
Two hundred references from twenty articles published in four peer-reviewed orthopaedic journals were randomly selected for assessment of citation and quotation accuracy. Full-text copies of all original references were obtained by interlibrary loan methods and reviewed directly to establish citation accuracy. The presence of citation errors was determined by a single investigator. The relevance of citation errors was determined by assessing the ease of reference retrieval through PubMed. Quotation accuracy was determined by two examiners who reviewed each of the twenty articles and 200 references to compare the claims made for the references in the article against the data and opinions expressed in the actual reference.
The total citation error rate across all of the journals was 26% (fifty-one of 200 references) with a 95% confidence interval of 16.5% to 37.3%. The median citation error rate per journal was 27% (range, 10% to 38%). Although citation errors were common, most were of minimal significance, as 196 of the 200 references could be retrieved with ease from PubMed. The total quotation error rate across all of the articles was 38% (152 of 398 reference citations) with a 95% confidence interval of 30.1% to 47.0%. The median quotation error rate per journal was 38% (range, 28% to 46%).
Citation and quotation errors are common in the pediatric orthopaedic literature. Reference accuracy continues to be a substantial problem in the biomedical literature despite recent technological advances such as online databases, easily accessible search engines, and widely available bibliographic software.
生物医学文献中文章的参考准确性取决于引用和引语错误的存在。最近的一项综述表明，每本生物医学期刊的平均引用错误率为 39%，每本期刊的平均引语错误率为 20%。据我们所知，儿科骨科文章的参考准确性尚未得到报道。
从四本同行评议的骨科期刊上发表的二十篇文章中随机选择 200 篇参考文献进行评估，以确定引用和引语的准确性。通过馆际互借的方法获取所有原始参考文献的全文副本，并直接进行审查以确定引用的准确性。引用错误由一位研究人员确定。引用错误的相关性通过评估通过 PubMed 检索参考文献的容易程度来确定。引语准确性由两位审阅者确定，他们审阅了二十篇文章中的每一篇和 200 篇参考文献，将文章中对参考文献的陈述与参考文献中的数据和观点进行比较实际参考。
所有期刊的总引用错误率为 26%（200 篇参考文献中有 51 篇），95%置信区间为 16.5%至 37.3%。期刊的平均引用错误率为 27%（范围为 10%至 38%）。虽然引用错误很常见，但大多数都是微不足道的，因为 200 篇参考文献中有 196 篇可以轻松从 PubMed 检索到。所有文章的总引语错误率为 38%（398 个引用中有 152 个），95%置信区间为 30.1%至 47.0%。期刊的平均引语错误率为 38%（范围为 28%至 46%）。
引用和引语错误在儿科骨科文献中很常见。尽管最近出现了在线数据库、易于访问的搜索引擎和广泛可用的书目软件等技术进步，但参考准确性仍然是生物医学文献中的一个重大问题。
