Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research
In CHI papers, citation of previous work is typically a shallow, throwaway action that demonstrates little critical engagement with the work cited. We present a citation context analysis of over 3000 citations from 69 papers at CHI2016, which demonstrates that only 4.8% of papers cited are presented...
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| author | Marshall, Joe Linehan, Conor Spence, Jocelyn Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan |
| author_facet | Marshall, Joe Linehan, Conor Spence, Jocelyn Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan |
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| description | In CHI papers, citation of previous work is typically a shallow, throwaway action that demonstrates little critical engagement with the work cited. We present a citation context analysis of over 3000 citations from 69 papers at CHI2016, which demonstrates that only 4.8% of papers cited are presented as anything other than uncontested fact. In 43% of CHI papers sampled, we found no evidence of any critical engagement. Lack of discussion and critique of previous work can encourage the spread of misunderstandings and errors. Authors, reviewers and publication venues must all change practices to respond to this failure of scholarship. |
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| spelling | nottingham-410502020-05-04T18:44:47Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41050/ Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research Marshall, Joe Linehan, Conor Spence, Jocelyn Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan In CHI papers, citation of previous work is typically a shallow, throwaway action that demonstrates little critical engagement with the work cited. We present a citation context analysis of over 3000 citations from 69 papers at CHI2016, which demonstrates that only 4.8% of papers cited are presented as anything other than uncontested fact. In 43% of CHI papers sampled, we found no evidence of any critical engagement. Lack of discussion and critique of previous work can encourage the spread of misunderstandings and errors. Authors, reviewers and publication venues must all change practices to respond to this failure of scholarship. 2017-05-06 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Marshall, Joe, Linehan, Conor, Spence, Jocelyn and Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan (2017) Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research. In: CHI 2017: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 6-11 May 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Bad HCI Citation context analysis Referencing http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3027063.3052751 |
| spellingShingle | Bad HCI Citation context analysis Referencing Marshall, Joe Linehan, Conor Spence, Jocelyn Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research |
| title | Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research |
| title_full | Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research |
| title_fullStr | Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research |
| title_short | Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research |
| title_sort | throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad hci research |
| topic | Bad HCI Citation context analysis Referencing |
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