Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

When a researcher wrote that maybe his peer review process would have gone better if he had cited the journal editor’s own papers, resignations and increased scrutiny followed.

College papers need more than good ideas and grammar. The use of proper citations is also a very important consideration but in most cases, it is ignored by students. Even a minor inaccuracy in a ...

Local citation network features that may hold predictive power. (A) Illustration of references (gray) of a citing paper (blue) that all cocited the target referenced paper (red) found in the same ...

This handout is outdated and has been unpublished from the website. The American Psychological Association (APA) has put out a booklet giving guidelines for writing professional and research papers, ...

Two big scholarly publishers of open-access research—meaning free to read outside a paywall—have been accused of excessively citing papers previously published in their own journals. A study published ...

I n the complex landscape of modern academe, the maxim “publish or perish” has been gradually evolving into a different mantra: “Get cited or your career gets blighted.” Citations are the new academic ...