标题：Survey on inadequate and omitted citations in manuscripts: a precursory study in identification of tasks for a literature review and manuscript writing assistive system
出版社：University of Sheffield, Department of Information Studies
摘要：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. The instances and reasons related to the issue are investigated along with participants' preferences on tasks where external assistance is required and current usage of information sources. An online questionnaire-based survey was conducted with participation from 207 respondents who had experience of reviewing and authoring research papers. The collected data was analysed quantitatively. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were performed. The reviewer and author groups opined that manuscript authors frequently miss citing seminal and topically-similar papers in journal manuscripts while the reviewer group specifically indicated that authors tend to include insufficient papers and also cite irrelevant papers in journal and conference manuscripts. The lack of experience in a particular research area was perceived as a major reason for inadequate and omitted citations, followed by lack of overall research experience and the scenario of working in interdisciplinary research projects. Authors frequently needed external assistance in finding interdisciplinary and topically-similar papers for a literature review. Google Scholar was the most used system among the list of information sources. 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.
关键词：inadequate and omitted citations; academic writing; manuscript review; literature review; scientific information seeking
