Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

College papers need more than good ideas and grammar. The use of proper citations is also a very important consideration but in most cases, it is ignored by students. Even a minor inaccuracy in a ...

Researchers could garner more citations simply by making their papers longer, a study seems to imply. In an analysis of 30,027 peer-reviewed papers published between 2000 and 2004 in top astronomy ...

According to a new study, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles. [Editor's note: please ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A small portion of scientific papers are retracted for research that is in error or fraudulent. But those papers can continue to be cited by other ...

Listing fake authors and misusing waivers solves those problems, Abalkina explains. And if papers are retracted, that doesn’t ...