Eichorn P, Yankauer A
Am J Public Health. 1987 Aug;77(8):1011-2. doi: 10.2105/ajph.77.8.1011.
We verified a random sample of 50 references in the May 1986 issue of each of three public health journals. Thirty-one per cent of the 150 references had citation errors, one out of 10 being a major error (reference not locatable). Thirty per cent of the references differed from authors' use of them with half being a major error (cited paper not related to author's contention).
我们核查了三种公共卫生期刊1986年5月那期各50条参考文献的随机样本。150条参考文献中有31%存在引用错误，每10条中有1条是严重错误（参考文献无法找到）。30%的参考文献与作者的使用情况不符，其中一半是严重错误（引用的论文与作者论点无关）。
