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“Thus, the cited documents have not been selected because of their content, but in order to influence the reader as to the claims of the citing author.”
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“A typical and highly cited paper in this context is Gilbert (1977) who regards citations as tools for persuasion.”
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“According to Gilbert (1977), an author selects documents for citing which were published by reputable authors in the field.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nigel Gilbert, G.
- Venue
- Social Studies of Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1977-02
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 113-122
- ISSN
- 0036-8539 (ISSN-L)
- 0306-3127
- 1460-3659
- OpenAlex
- W2171789734
- Cited by
- 691
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 40 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 32.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Studies of Science (publishedVersion)
- Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- referencing, citation, persuasion, epistemic authority, academic writing
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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