Preserving the Integrity of Citations and References by All Stakeholders of Science Communication

摘要: Citations to scholarly items are building bricks for multidisciplinary science communication. Citation analyses currently influencing individual career advancement and ranking of academic research institutions worldwide. This article overviews the involvement scientific authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, indexers, learned associations in citing referencing preserve integrity Authors responsible thorough bibliographic searches select relevant references their articles, comprehend main points, cite them an ethical way. Reviewers editors may perform additional recommend missing essential references. Publishers, turn, a position instruct authors over citations references, provide tools validation open access bibliographies. Publicly available reference lists bear important information about novelty relatedness with published literature. Few editorial have dealt issue properly managed As prime example, International Committee Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) issued December 2014 updated set recommendations on need primary literature avoiding unethical which applicable global community. With exponential growth related it is critically define functions all stakeholders communication curbing irrational thereby improve quality indexability journals.