台灣家庭醫學雜誌參考文獻準確性研究

Reference Accuracy in Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine

10.3966/168232812018032801004

王怡人(Yi-Jen Wang)；陳曾基(Tzeng-Ji Chen)；杜俊毅(Chun-Yi Tu)

參考文獻 ； 準確性 ； 引用錯誤 ； 家庭醫學 ； accuracy ； citation error ； family medicine ； reference

台灣家庭醫學雜誌

28卷1期（2018 / 03 / 01）

28 - 37

繁體中文

目的：本篇旨在探討台灣家庭醫學雜誌一年當中參考文獻的準確性。方法：彙整台灣家庭醫學雜誌2015年25卷3期至2016年26卷2期所有文章，查核有被 PubMed收錄的文獻，按照雜誌投稿規則檢視著者姓名、題目、雜誌簡稱、年份、卷數、起迄頁數共六個資料項目，任何不同即判別為錯誤，以描述性統計分析錯誤筆數與錯誤率。結果：期間26篇文章共引用606項文獻，其中有被PubMed收錄文獻共448項，平均每篇論文引用被PubMed收錄文獻17.2（標準差10.1）項，在有引用被PubMed的收錄文獻之25篇論文中，只有一篇文章的參考文獻完全準確，另有一篇文章的參考文獻全部有誤。整體收錄於PubMed參考文獻錯誤率為27.0%，有5.1%參考文獻出現一項以上錯誤，錯誤資料項目以著者姓名(32.5%)最多，雜誌簡稱(18.2%)次之。結論：一年期間台灣家庭醫學雜誌發表文章中，被PubMed收錄之參考文獻的錯誤率並不算高，但仍有改善空間。

Background: Citation errors are fairly common in medical journals. Accurate reference helps readers to access articles of interests and serves as an indicator for the quality of a journal. The prevalence of citation errors has never been reported for the Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine since its publication. The aim of this study is to examine the reference accuracy in the Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine in one year. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed based on the articles published in the Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine from Volume 25(3), 2015 to Volume 26(2), 2016. All the references included in PubMed were checked for accuracy, using the following six indices: author, title, journal abbreviations, year, volume, and pages. References were considered incorrect if there was any error in the six indices. Statistical analysis directed its attention to the frequency and percentage of the identified citation errors. Results: Of the total 26 articles, 448 of the 606 references were identified as being included in PubMed. Each article cited an average of 17.2 (SD 10.1) PubMed references. Among the 25 articles citing PubMed reference, one had 100% reference accuracy, and one 0%. Of all the references included in PubMed, the overall citation error rate was 27.0%, and 5.1% of the references had more than one citation error. The most common error appeared in author's name (32.5%), followed by title abbreviation (18.2%). Conclusion: Of the articles published in the Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine in the past one year, the rate of citation error concerning PubMed references can hardly be considered high; however, as the findings of the report suggests, there is still room of improvement for the journal's contributors, reviewers, and editors.

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