骨科运动医学文献中普遍存在引用不准确的情况

Q3 Medicine
Daniel Homeier M.D., Mason Adams D.O., Thomas Lynch M.D., Daniel Cognetti M.D.
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摘要

目的评估同行评议的骨科运动医学文献在两本影响力较大的期刊中是否存在参考文献错误。方法从两本影响力较大的骨科运动医学期刊《关节镜》和《美国运动医学杂志》中随机抽取 20 篇同行评议文章,共评估了 769 条参考文献和 1,082 次内联引文。参考文献全文通过在线文献订阅数据库获取。两名调查人员对每篇参考文献进行评估,以确定参考文献的研究设计、方法、数据、讨论和结论是否与引用作者的说法一致。对错误率、观察者之间的一致性以及错误率与期刊人口统计学之间的关联进行了评估。结果代表观察者之间一致性的Chen's κ系数为0.61。来自 2 种骨科运动医学期刊的 20 篇文章的平均引用错误率为 6.6%。最常见的错误是未能支持作者在引用文章中的论断,占错误总数的 32%。错误率与期刊影响因子、引用参考文献数量或总参考文献数量、行内引用与引用参考文献的比率(引用比率)以及作者人数之间没有明显关系。错误率与期刊、研究类型和证据水平之间没有明显关系。结论在骨科运动医学文献中,不准确的声明和引用很常见,每篇综述文章中都会出现,在所有内联引文中占 6.6%。未能支持引用参考文献的文章的论断是一个常见错误。作者应注意严格评估参考文献,尤其要注意准确引用主要来源。这项研究强调了在随机抽样的高水平骨科运动医学文章中普遍存在的引用错误。鉴于科学是不断积累的,这些错误会使不准确性长期存在,并与循证实践相悖。
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Inaccurate Citations Are Prevalent Within Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Literature

Purpose

To evaluate the peer-reviewed orthopaedic sports medicine literature for reference errors within 2 high-impact journals.

Methods

In total, 769 references with 1,082 in-line citations were assessed from 20 randomly selected peer-reviewed articles published in 2 high-impact orthopaedic sports medicine journals, Arthroscopy and the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Full-text copies of references were obtained through online literature subscription databases. Two investigators evaluated each citation for agreement between the reference’s study design, methods, data, discussion, and conclusion with the citing authors’ claims. Error rates, interobserver agreement, and association between error rates and journal demographics were assessed.

Results

Cohen’s κ coefficient representing interobserver agreement was 0.61. The mean citation error rate across 20 articles from 2 orthopaedic sports medicine journals was 6.6%. The most common error was failure to support the authors’ assertions within the citing article, accounting for 32% of errors. There was no significant association between error rate and journal impact factor, number of cited references or total references, ratio of in-line citations to cited references (citation ratio), and number of authors. There was no significant relationship between error rate and journal, study type, and level of evidence.

Conclusions

Inaccurate claims and citations are common within the orthopaedic sports medicine literature, occurring in every reviewed article and 6.6% of all in-line citations. Failure to support the assertions of the article in which a reference is cited is a common error. Authors should take care to rigorously assess references with particular attention to accurate citation of primary sources.

Clinical Relevance

This study highlights the prevalence of citation errors within a random sampling of high-level orthopaedic sports medicine articles. Given science is cumulative, these errors perpetuate inaccuracies and are at odds with evidence-based practice.

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