Citation accuracy in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science
Abstract
A check of 5% of the citations in the bibliographies of articles in Canadian Journal of Plant Science, volumes 37–38 (1957–1958) and 69–70 (1989–1990), for accuracy identified errors in approximately 38% of the citations.Key words: Citations, references, errors, plant science
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In Harper (1992), 38% of verified references from 1989-1990 in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science contained at least one error.
“Unclear 1957-1958: 40% 1989-1990: 38% N/A Article title”
From Reference accuracy of primary studies published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals: A scoping review (2024) · cites this paper as Harper (1992)
In Harper (1992), 40% of verified references from 1957-1958 in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science contained at least one error.
“Unclear 1957-1958: 40% 1989-1990: 38% N/A Article title”
From Reference accuracy of primary studies published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals: A scoping review (2024) · cites this paper as Harper (1992)
Cites
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Logan, S. W., Hussong-Christian, U., Case, L., & Noregaard, S. (2024) · Journal of Librarianship and Information Science · doi:10.1177/09610006231177715 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
- Authors
- Harper, J. A.
- Corresponding author
- Harper, Judith A.
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science
- Publisher
- Canadian Science Publishing
- Published
- 1992-04-01
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 487-488
- ISSN
- 0008-4220 (ISSN-L)
- 1918-1833
- OpenAlex
- W2004997299
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- citation accuracy, bibliographic references, citation errors, reference checking, plant science literature
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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