Gurudevan S V, Mower W R
University of California-Los Angeles Emergency Medical Center, Los Angeles 90024, USA.
Ann Emerg Med. 1996 Mar;27(3):327-30. doi: 10.1016/s0196-0644(96)70268-8.
To assess the prevalence of misrepresented citations among emergency medicine residency applicants and to determine whether misrepresentation increases as the number of citations increases.
We examined 350 consecutive emergency medicine residency applications and then reviewed all cited publications to determine whether they were genuine or misrepresented. Applicants with citations were divided into three groups: those who listed one citation, those with two to four citations, and those with five or more citations. The numbers of individuals and misrepresentations were then tabulated and compared among the groups.
Publications were cited on 113 applications (32.3%). Twenty-three applicants (20.4% of those who cited publications and 6.6% of all applicants) misrepresented citations. Misrepresentations were found in 8 of 56 applications listing single citations (14.3%), 8 of 46 applications (17.4%) claiming two to four citations, and 7 of 11 (63.6%) applications claiming five or more citations (P=.00081, Pearson chi 2 test).
Emergency medicine residency applications may contain misrepresented citations. The number of misrepresentations in this study increased as the number of citations increased.
评估急诊医学住院医师申请中虚假引用的发生率，并确定虚假引用是否随着引用数量的增加而增多。
我们检查了350份连续的急诊医学住院医师申请，然后查阅了所有被引用的出版物，以确定它们是真实的还是虚假的。有引用的申请人被分为三组：列出一条引用的人、列出两到四条引用的人以及列出五条或更多引用的人。然后将各小组中的人数和虚假引用情况制成表格并进行比较。
113份申请（32.3%）中列出了出版物被引用的情况。23名申请人（占引用出版物者的20.4%，占所有申请人的6.6%）存在虚假引用。在列出一条引用的56份申请中有8份（14.3%）存在虚假引用，在声称有两到四条引用的46份申请中有8份（17.4%），在声称有五条或更多引用的11份申请中有7份（63.6%）（Pearson卡方检验，P = 0.00081）。
急诊医学住院医师申请可能包含虚假引用。本研究中，虚假引用的数量随着引用数量的增加而增多。
