Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jan 1977

Accuracy of Published Medical Reference Citations

June E. Goodrich ; Charles G. Roland

Abstract

Among 2, 195 reference citations, published during 1975 in ten major US medical journals, 634 (29%) were found to be erroneous on direct checking of the original source. The percentage of error within individual journals ranged from 14 to 50 per cent. Such a high error rate would seem to seriously diminish the usefulness of published reference lists and, possibly, raise questions about the accuracy of other portions of the literature also.

Journal
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
1977-01-01
DOI
10.2190/2b2a-f34l-0txg-wnq7

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