Abstract
This paper examines the common, and highly complex, practice of academic citation use. Inasmuch as citations - and their analysis - are seen as fundamental to the provenance of scientific investigation and publication, they are therefore deserving of a public discourse in how to best ethically frame: (1) citation analysis methodologies; (2) academic citation behavior; and (3) peer review and publisher citation behavior; in the context of their potential to distort the scientific process and intellectual honesty.
DOI
10.17705/1CAIS.02516
Recommended Citation
Knight, S. (2009). Journal Self-Citation XVI: Academic Citations – A Question of Ethics?. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 25, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.02516
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