Delft University of Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Building 58, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.
Metallomics. 2022 Sep 12;14(9). doi: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac063.
Analysis of citation networks in biomedical research has indicated that belief in a specific scientific claim can gain unfounded authority through citation bias (systematic ignoring of papers that contain content conflicting with a claim), amplification (citation to papers that don't contain primary data), and invention (citing content but claiming it has a different meaning). There is no a priori reason to expect that citation distortion is limited to particular fields of science. This Pespective presents a case study of the literature on maximum iron loading of the ferritin protein to illustrate that the field of metallomics is no exception to the rule that citation distortion is a widespread phenomenon.
生物医学研究中的引文网络分析表明，对特定科学主张的信任可以通过引文偏差（系统地忽略包含与主张内容相冲突的论文）、放大（引用不包含原始数据的论文）和发明（引用内容但声称其具有不同的含义）获得毫无根据的权威。没有先验的理由可以认为引文扭曲仅限于特定的科学领域。本观点以铁蛋白蛋白最大铁负载量的文献为例，提出了一个案例研究，说明了金属组学领域也不例外，引文扭曲是一种普遍现象。
