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Criteria used by research and development engineers in the selection of an information source.
Overview
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Citations
Cited by
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Information Needs in Office Practice: Are They Being Met?
COVELL, D. G., UMAN, G. C., & MANNING, P. R. (1985) · Annals of Internal Medicine · doi:10.7326/0003-4819-103-4-596 · Cited by 854
O'Reilly, C. A. (1982) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.2307/256097 · Cited by 709
Trust in information sources: Seeking information from people, documents, and virtual agents
Hertzum, M., Andersen, H. H. K., Andersen, V., & Hansen, C. B. (2002) · Interacting with Computers · doi:10.1016/s0953-5438(02)00023-1 · Cited by 157
(2010) · W&M Publish (College of William & Mary) · Cited by 16
Metadata
- Authors
- Gerstberger, P. G., & Allen, T. J.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 1968
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 272-279
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2080503833
- Cited by
- 265
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 13.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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How to cite
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- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Criteria used by research and development engineers in the selection of an information source. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1037/h0026041
- The paper
- Gerstberger, P. G., & Allen, T. J. (1968). Criteria used by research and development engineers in the selection of an information source. Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0026041
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.