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Dissertation Information for Catherine J. Sassen

NAME:
- Catherine J. Sassen

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of North Texas (USA) (1992)

ADVISORS:
- Rose Mary Magrill

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Donald B. Cleveland
- Kenneth Ferstl
- Ana D. Cleveland
- Earl Leche McCallon

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Citation accuracy in the journal literature of four disciplines: Chemistry, psychology, library science, and English and American literature

Abstract: The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between the bibliographic citation practices of the members of a discipline and the emphasis placed on citation accuracy and purposes in the graduate instruction of the discipline. Citation practices were evaluated by assessing the accuracy of a sample of 1,280 bibliographic citations selected from 40 scholarly journals in four disciplines. The emphasis placed on citation accuracy and purposes in the graduate instruction of a discipline was measured by examining graduate program requirements in college catalogs that were chosen to reflect the educational backgrounds of the authors whose citations were selected for the study.

Although a statistically significant difference in error rate was found among the citations grouped by discipline, this difference was not explained by the variable of citation instruction. The average number of courses pertaining to citation instruction was highest in library science, followed by English and American literature, chemistry and psychology. The average number of erroneous fields per citation was least in citations from chemistry, followed by English and American literature, library science and psychology. A one-way analysis of variance procedure was used to compare the citations from each discipline on the average number of erroneous fields per citation, and a statistically significant difference was found (p = 0.0162). The Newman-Keuls multiple comparison test was used to determine that chemistry citations differed significantly from psychology citations.

Citation errors were analyzed in relation to the formats of documents cited. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to determine that statistically significant differences existed among erroneous citations grouped by document format (p $<$ 0.0001).

Implications of the research results were considered. These implications pertained to instruction on bibliographic citation, the editorial policies of journals, the bibliographic citation practices of authors, style manuals and their rules for bibliographic citations, and the design and use of information storage and retrieval systems.

MPACT Scores for Catherine J. Sassen

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:21:07

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