Déjà vu—A study of duplicate citations in Medline
Author(s) -
Mounir Errami,
Justin M. Hicks,
Wayne G. Fisher,
David Trusty,
Jonathan D. Wren,
Tara C. Long,
Harold R. Garner
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm574
Subject(s) - information retrieval , citation , computer science , medline , citation database , scope (computer science) , citation analysis , matching (statistics) , similarity (geometry) , world wide web , statistics , artificial intelligence , mathematics , biology , scopus , biochemistry , programming language , image (mathematics)
Duplicate publication impacts the quality of the scientific corpus, has been difficult to detect, and studies this far have been limited in scope and size. Using text similarity searches, we were able to identify signatures of duplicate citations among a body of abstracts.
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