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Martella, Amedee Marchand; Yatcilla, Jane Kinkus; Martella, Ronald C.; Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.; Ozen, Zafer; Karatas, Tugce; Park, Helen H.; Simpson, Alexandra; Karpicke, Jeffrey D. – Review of Educational Research, 2021
When previous research is cited incorrectly, misinformation can infiltrate scientific discourse and undermine scholarly knowledge. One of the more damaging citation issues involves incorrectly citing article content (called quotation errors); therefore, investigating quotation accuracy is an important research endeavor. One field where quotation…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Citations (References), Accuracy, Error Patterns
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Kessler, Jane; Van Ullen, Mary K. – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
A review of the help files in several major databases revealed that database vendors have begun including information on citing sources, which has the potential to be very useful to students. Surprisingly, 94% of the citation examples in the databases reviewed had errors. The average number of errors per example was 4.3. The citation help appears…
Descriptors: Databases, Vendors, Librarians, Error Patterns