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Citation accuracy in environmental science journals

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Citations in five leading environmental science journals were examined for accuracy. 24.41% of the 2,650 citations checked were found to contain errors. The largest category of errors was in the author field. Of the five journals Conservation Biology had the lowest percentage of citations with errors and Climatic Change had the highest. Of the citations with errors that could be checked in Web of Science, 18.18% of the errors caused a search for the cited article to fail. Citations containing electronic links had fewer errors than those without.

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    Robert Lopresti

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Lopresti, R. Citation accuracy in environmental science journals. Scientometrics 85, 647–655 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0293-6

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