Table 5.
Factors associated with inaccurate citations
| Independent variable | Univariate | Multivariate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | SE | p | b | SE | p | ||
| Review article | 0.22 | 0.09 | 0.023 | 0.22 | 0.09 | 0.022 | |
| Time to citation (years) | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.018 | 0.23 | 0.08 | 0.005 | |
| Number of authors | −0.05 | 0.06 | 0.340 | ||||
| Self-citation | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.548 | ||||
| Impact factor, Yes | −0.26 | 0.13 | 0.048 | ||||
| Citation style, Vancouver or mixed | −0.14 | 0.15 | 0.373 | ||||
| Number of citations of source article, >1 | 0.59 | 0.09 | <0.001 | 0.60 | 0.09 | <0.001 | |
| Reference count | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.057 | ||||
Data were analyzed by multilevel regression models for binary data, with citation inaccuracy (yes vs. no) as the dependent variable.
b, regression coefficient; SE, standard error; p, p-value