Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.

References are employed in most academic research papers to give credits and to reflect scholarliness. With the upsurge in academic publications in recent decades, we are curious to know how the number of references cited per research article has changed across different disciplines over that time....

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Autores principales:	Can Dai, Quan Chen, Tao Wan, Fan Liu, Yanbing Gong, Qingfeng Wang
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/abae945a4da44a74b3a9e3eeba61ecfe
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:abae945a4da44a74b3a9e3eeba61ecfe2021-12-02T20:18:34ZLiterary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0255849https://doaj.org/article/abae945a4da44a74b3a9e3eeba61ecfe2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255849https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203References are employed in most academic research papers to give credits and to reflect scholarliness. With the upsurge in academic publications in recent decades, we are curious to know how the number of references cited per research article has changed across different disciplines over that time. The results of our study showed significant linear growth in reference density in eight disciplinary categories between 1980 and 2019 indexed in Web of Science. It appears that reference saturation is not yet in sight. Overall, the general increase in the number of publications and the advanced accessibility of the Internet and digitized documents may have promoted the growth in references in certain fields. However, the seemingly runaway tendency should be well appreciated and objectively assessed. We suggest that authors focus on their research itself rather than on political considerations during the process of writing, especially the selection of important references to cite.Can DaiQuan ChenTao WanFan LiuYanbing GongQingfeng WangPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0255849 (2021)
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description	References are employed in most academic research papers to give credits and to reflect scholarliness. With the upsurge in academic publications in recent decades, we are curious to know how the number of references cited per research article has changed across different disciplines over that time. The results of our study showed significant linear growth in reference density in eight disciplinary categories between 1980 and 2019 indexed in Web of Science. It appears that reference saturation is not yet in sight. Overall, the general increase in the number of publications and the advanced accessibility of the Internet and digitized documents may have promoted the growth in references in certain fields. However, the seemingly runaway tendency should be well appreciated and objectively assessed. We suggest that authors focus on their research itself rather than on political considerations during the process of writing, especially the selection of important references to cite.
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title	Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.
title_short	Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.
title_full	Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.
title_fullStr	Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.
title_full_unstemmed	Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.
title_sort	literary runaway: increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
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Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.

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