2002年12月12日的《自然》杂志和14日的《新科学家》杂志相继披露了这样的事实:两位美国工程师在对文献引文错误现象调查时发现,许多论文作者并没有真正阅读过他们所列的参考文献,引文中存在的非正常错误现象十分普遍。 这两位工程师来自美国加州大学洛杉矶分校。他们通过检查论文中参考文献的出错率来评价科学家的勤奋程度,结果发 Nature, December 12, 2002, and New Scientist, 14, disclosed one after another the fact that two U.S. engineers found that many of the authors of the essay did not actually read them when investigating citation mispricing The listed references, citation abnormalities in the phenomenon is very common. The two engineers from the University of California, Los Angeles. They evaluated the scientist’s diligence by examining the error rates of references in the paper. The results