ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
The prevalence and inaccessibility of Internet references in the biomedical literature at the time of publication.
Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Attrition of Canadian Internet pharmacy websites: what are the implications?Drug, healthcare and patient safety · 2013Article
- A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques.BMC bioinformatics · 2013Article
- Disappearing act: decay of uniform resource locators in health care management journals.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2009Article
- Accuracy of the references in JIAPS.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons · 2008Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the prevalence and inaccessibility of Internet references in the bibliography of biomedical publications when first released in PubMed.
methodsDuring a one-month observational study period (Feb 21 to Mar 21, 2006) the Internet citations from a 20% random sample of all forthcoming publications released in PubMed during the previous day were identified. Attempts to access the referenced Internet citations were completed within one day and inaccessible Internet citations were recorded.
resultsThe study included 4,699 publications from 844 different journals. Among the 141,845 references there were 840 (0.6%) Internet citations. One or more Internet references were cited in 403 (8.6%) articles. From the 840 Internet references, 11.9% were already inaccessible within two days after an article's release to the public.
conclusionThe prevalence of Internet citations in journals included in PubMed is small (<1%); however, the inaccessibility rate at the time of publication is considered substantial. Authors, editors, and publishers need to take responsibility for providing accurate and accessible Internet references.
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