#citationbias — Public Fediverse posts

@junesim63 The wood wide web, not as wide as it seems : this idea of interconnecting trees, based on Suzanne Simard's papers and then largely publicised by Peter Wohlleben in his book "The Hidden Life of Trees", is largely based on #CitationBias towards positive effects , as this very nice review paper here shows : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
#ForestEcology #Forests

@Filomel
@academicchatter
The Karst et al is not only a very nice paper because it shows what is really known about the information transfer among trees via mycorrhizal networks, but also because it shows how a #CitationBias towards positive results "may obscure our understanding of the structure and function of CMNs in forests. " or any other research subject. When writing papers, especially for inexperienced writers, this is really a problem to consider.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
#Forests

@Filomel Karst et al have written in 2023 a very nice piece on #CitationBias and the over-interpretation of results on the common mycorrhizal networks in #Forests
https://sciencenewsnet.in/the-claim-that-forest-trees-talk-through-underground-fungi-is-questionable/
The original paper is here :
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1

The wood wide web, not as wide as it seems : this idea of interconnecting trees, based on Suzanne Simard's papers and then largely publicised by Peter Wohlleben in his book "The Hidden Life of Trees", is largely based on #CitationBias towards positive effects , as this very nice review paper here shows : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
#ForestEcology #Forests

One of the strongest objections to #APCs is that they exclude large numbers of scholarly authors on economic grounds, unrelated to the merit of their work. (See e.g. the #BOAI20, recommendation 3.)

A new study argues that this exclusion shows up in #CitationBias against authors from the #GlobalSouth. The bias itself is well-documented and the authors argue that the rise of APCs is one factor in explaining it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665944124000142

#ScholComm

New study: "While #LLMs can aid in citation generation, they may also amplify existing biases, such as the #MatthewEffect, and introduce new ones, potentially skewing scientific knowledge dissemination."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15739

#AI #Citations, #CitationBias

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E.g. #CitationBias can be mitigated: it may be a daunting experience, when serving as a peer reviewer, to periodically be forced to note how controversial publications should not be cited to corroborate a thesis without mentioning there is a controversy (meaning: the thesis might not be so obvious to defend after all).

At least, not without giving honest context (e.g. also citing the main criticisms, especially when they are not occasional but instead systematically repeated over decades)

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"#CitationBias is often unintentional, but is a consequence of the way humans think. Bishop (2020) [2] described a particular cognitive process, confirmation bias, which makes it much easier to attend to and remember things that are aligned with our prior expectations. #ConfirmationBias is a natural tendency that in everyday life that often serves a useful purpose in reducing our #CognitiveLoad, but which is incompatible with objective scientific thinking" [1]

#science #research

@ct_bergstrom
Citation stacking, like 50 papers cited in the first paragraph, can also be a sign of citation manipulation.

When you see [1-50], it's possible the authors may be boosting their own work or that of connected researchers/journals, or they may be part of a citation ring, or - in a published article - they may have been subject to coercive citation by a reviewer or editor.
#PublicationEthics #Bibliometrics #Citations #CitationScience #CitationBias #ScholComm

Hey mastooters do you know any automated tools that check for biases (gender etc) in reference lists or bibliography? I want to begin doing this in my work but it’s tedious to do it by hand! #neuroscience #citationbias