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Title: Survey on inadequate and omitted citations in manuscripts: a precursory study in identification of tasks for a literature review and manuscript writing assistive system
Authors: Sesagiri Raamkumar, Aravind
Foo, Schubert
Pang, Natalie
Keywords: Inadequate and omitted citations
Academic writing
Issue Date: 2016
Source: Sesagiri Raamkumar, A., Foo, S., & Pang, N. (2016). Survey on inadequate and omitted citations in manuscripts: a precursory study in identification of tasks for a literature review and manuscript writing assistive system. Information Research, 21(4), 733-.
Series/Report no.: Information Research
Abstract: Introduction.This paper looks at the issue of inadequate and omitted citations in manuscripts by collecting the experiential opinions of researchers from the dual perspectives of manuscript reviewers and authors. Method. An online survey was conducted with participation from 207 respondents who had experience of reviewing and authoring research papers. Analysis. The collected data were analysed quantitatively. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were performed. Results. Reviewer and author groups opined that manuscript authors fail to cite seminal and topically-similar papers, while the reviewer group indicated that authors include too few papers and cite irrelevant papers. The lack of experience was perceived as a major reason for inadequate and omitted citations, followed by lack of overall research experience and working in interdisciplinary research projects. Authors needed external assistance in finding papers for a literature review. Google Scholar was the most used system among the list of information sources. Conclusions. The findings may benefit subsequent studies conducted to solve the issue of inadequate and omitted citations through process improvements and technological interventions. The findings helped in identifying three tasks for a literature review and manuscript writing assistive system. The usage preferences on information sources helped in shortlisting Google Scholar's user-interface as a basis for the user-interface design for the assistive system.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84362
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41792
URL: http://www.informationr.net/ir/21-4/paper733.html
ISSN: 1368-1613
Schools: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 
Research Centres: Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC) 
Rights: © 2016 The Author(s). This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in Information Research, published by Information Research on behalf of the Author(s). It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document.  The published version is available at: [http://www.informationr.net/ir/21-4/paper733.html].
Fulltext Permission: open
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