What can be done to prevent the proliferation of errors in academic publications?

Hartley, James (2014) What can be done to prevent the proliferation of errors in academic publications? Impact of Social Sciences Blog (19 May 2014). Website.

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Every now and again a paper is published on the number of errors made in academic articles. These papers document the frequency of conceptual errors, factual errors, errors in abstracts, errors in quotations, and errors in reference lists. James Hartley reports that the data are alarming, but suggests a possible way of reducing them. Perhaps in future there might be a single computer program that matches references in the text with correct (pre-stored) references as one writes the text.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2017 15:25
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 19:13
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71232

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