De Facto Adoption of Blog and Wikipedia in Research Reporting
| Autor: | O. Tolga Pusatli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
De facto sciencedirect hakem sürecinden geçmemiş kaynak General Computer Science business.industry Communication. Mass media 05 social sciences vikipedi non peer-reviewed resource QA75.5-76.95 blog Public relations P87-96 wikipedia 03 medical and health sciences Research reporting 030104 developmental biology Electronic computers. Computer science T1-995 Sociology 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences business Technology (General) |
| Zdroj: | Online Academic Journal of Information Technology, Vol 8, Iss 29, Pp 7-24 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1309-1581 |
| DOI: | 10.5824/1309-1581.2017.4.001.x |
| Popis: | Assessing references in the review process of academic research is a common requirement. One of the criteria in the credibility of the works is to support arguments with solid and peer-reviewed resources from the literature. Having non peer-reviewed resources in the references can degrade the work and this may be a reason for rejection or retraction, later. Recently, works taking such resources as reference appear more often with increasing number of blogs and Wikipedia usage; hence, the motivation of this study is to investigate given credit to such works. As the case study, investigation is done in the huge online database of ScienceDirect. Queries to extract number of works housing such references are run per research fields classified in the database. The results show there are considerable number of examples where blogs and Wikipedia are seen as resources to be used in academic papers. This finding is limited to the case study and it is too early to declare that blogs and Wikipedia can be used as references; however, a de facto adoption exits in some research fields. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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