Researchers have long suspected that review papers poach citations from the original papers they cite. A new analysis of millions of journal articles shows that certain review papers do indeed draw ...

The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board ...

They’re not the kind of gangs that smuggle drugs and murder people. But people looking closely at the scientific literature have discovered that a small number of scientists are part of a different ...

College papers need more than good ideas and grammar. The use of proper citations is also a very important consideration but in most cases, it is ignored by students. Even a minor inaccuracy in a ...

Two big scholarly publishers of open-access research—meaning free to read outside a paywall—have been accused of excessively citing papers previously published in their own journals. A study published ...

A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist. By Dani Blum and Maggie Astor The Trump administration released a ...

Referencing is a prominent thing in academic writing. It is used to provide sources to other authors’ work you have referred to in your studies. In this article, I am going to share a tutorial on how ...

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, Lokman I Meho describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these ...

Students and academics of the tech age no longer need to rely solely on library books and use typewritten call cards (remember those?) to find a book to cite for a research paper or college thesis.