Timeline for What should I do if I found a citation error in a published paper?
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| Feb 6, 2022 at 16:33 | comment | added | Chris Leary | @Louis Maddox - I won't name names, but an influential person in my field even cited their own work incorrectly. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 2:35 | history | edited | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 2:12 | history | edited | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2013 at 6:02 | vote | accept | Louis Maddox | ||
| Aug 27, 2013 at 0:37 | comment | added | JRN | See also academia.stackexchange.com/q/3445/64 | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 21:31 | comment | added | Kaz | The first thing is to determine whether this error "destroys" the paper which made the citation. If this is some small thing which can be fixed up, rescuing the paper, it is a different situation from the paper critically depending on the blunder being true. Also, is there any ripple effect: is there other work which depends on the results in that paper. How "big" is this, in other words? | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 21:16 | comment | added | Rex Kerr | You don't say whether that citation being the right one is essential for their results to be correct/meaningful. An occasional incorrect citation, while a mistake, is often not usually a "pretty big mistake". For instance: "Previous work on XGrp-beta indicates that it does not interact with NmpR [3,4,5,7]" with #5 actually not talking about NmpR is pretty minor. "All calculations in this paper were made using the reference diffusion constant of hTsp [8]" with anomalous diffusion being the main point of the paper, and [8] not even being the right protein, is a huge error. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 18:27 | comment | added | JohnnyO | You'd be amazed how often people incorrectly cite prior research, or butcher their citations. People have even written papers on it (interfaces.journal.informs.org/content/38/2/125.abstract) | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 18:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/372059859468189696 | ||
| Aug 26, 2013 at 16:14 | answer | added | Shion | timeline score: 23 | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 15:04 | answer | added | F'x | timeline score: 49 | |
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| Aug 26, 2013 at 14:58 | answer | added | Peter Jansson | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 14:48 | history | edited | Peter Jansson |
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| Aug 26, 2013 at 14:45 | history | asked | Louis Maddox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |