{"id":20229,"date":"2019-08-24T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20229"},"modified":"2019-08-24T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:14:17","slug":"self-citing-academics-threaten-integrity-scientific-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/self-citing-academics-threaten-integrity-scientific-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-citing academics threaten integrity of scientific texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent research has analyzed hundreds of recently published academic works, and according to the results, many of the highly regarded scientists are using their own work for citations.<\/b>
\nSelf-citing has become a popular phenomenon, however, this practice can become detrimental to the quality of scientific research and publications available to the public. <\/span>
\nIn simple terms, citing your own works as sources is a closed loop of information, which allows for a large number of errors, if the initial research was incorrect.\u00a0<\/b>
\nOne of the most prominent <\/span>examples<\/span><\/a> of self-citing is Dr. Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan, a faculty member at the Vel Tech R&D Institute of Technology, who has achieved an incredible ninety-four percent (94%) of self-citing in his publications. This means that only about five percent (5%) of his sources were not his own scientific researches or academic texts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-citing and sourcing of information<\/span><\/h2>\n

Another big contributor to the rise in self-citing among academics is the fact that most works are the result of a collective effort.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThus, when individual members of the author team decide to publish their own work, contacting one of their fellow co-authors for citations is an easy solution.<\/b> However, this practice too poses a danger to the authenticity of research and information validation.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWhile years ago access to information was limited, nowadays many publications are available online and publishing houses like <\/span>Pearson<\/span><\/a> are making moves towards digitizing their work. Considering this, it is somewhat surprising that scholars and academics are increasingly turning to their own work for citations.<\/span>
\nThe recent <\/b>study<\/b><\/a> has concluded that more than two hundred (250) of the most renown researchers have used self-citation for about fifty-percent (50%) of their sources.<\/b> This is a worrying tendency and researchers at the University of California have expressed concerns, asking for stricter rules when it comes to source citation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent research has analyzed hundreds of recently published academic works, and according to the results, many of the highly regarded scientists are using their own work for citations. Self-citing has become a popular phenomenon, however, this practice can become detrimental to the quality of scientific research and publications available to the public. In simple terms, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,1144,1236,1255,1497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}