引用工具 MEDLINE 的准确性:在两个平台上的分析.
Laurel Scheinfeld1, Sunny Chung2
1laurel.scheinfeld@stonybrook.edu, Senior Assistant Librarian, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
|August 9, 2024
概括
生物医学数据库中的引用生成器,如Ovid MEDLINE和PubMed,对于学生来说是不可靠的. 研究人员发现没有错误的引用,强调了在学术写作中需要手动验证的必要性.
科学领域:
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
- 信息科学 信息科学 信息科学
- 生物医学信息学 生物医学信息学
背景情况:
- 学术图书馆提供具有集成自动引用功能的数据库.
- 这些自引用工具的准确性往往值得怀疑,特别是在社会科学和人文科学中.
- 生物医学数据库中自动引用特征的可靠性需要为学生使用进行调查.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较Ovid MEDLINE和PubMed. 的引用准确度.
- 为了确定数据库的自动引用功能是否可靠于学生的学术写作.
- 评估由Ovid MEDLINE和PubMed生成的引用中的错误率.
主要方法:
- 评价了60个引用:30个来自Ovid MEDLINE和30个来自PubMed.
- 引用是根据2010年至2020年间PubMed上市的前30篇文章生成的.
- 评估每个生成的引用的准确性.
主要成果:
- 无论是Ovid MEDLINE还是PubMed都没有提供无错引用;在60个引用中,0%是完全准确的.
- 与PubMed相比,Ovid MEDLINE的错误率更高.
- 两种生物医学数据库中的自动引用工具都被发现是不可靠的.
结论:
- 在Ovid MEDLINE和PubMed中的引文生成器不能用于学术目的.
- 学生不应该仅仅依靠这些自动引用工具来进行论文.
- 图书馆员必须继续指导学生了解自动引用功能的局限性,并强调手动验证.
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