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In non-fiction writing, especially academic works, it is generally considered important to give credit to sources of information and ideas. Failure to do so often gives rise to charges of plagiarism , and "piracy" of intellectual rights such as the right to receive a royalty for having written.
An additional example is provided by patents which contain prior art, citation of earlier patents relevant to the current claim. The digitization of patent data and increasing computing power have led to a community of practice that uses these citation data to measure innovation attributes, trace knowledge flows, and map innovation networks.
xkcd webcomic titled "Wikipedian Protester". The sign says: "[CITATION NEEDED]".[1]A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of ...
An acknowledgment index (British acknowledgement index) [1] is a scientometric index which analyzes acknowledgments in scientific literature and attempts to quantify their impact. Typically, a scholarly article has a section in which the authors acknowledge entities such as funding, technical staff, colleagues, etc. that have contributed ...
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences), a statement of gratitude for assistance in producing a work Acknowledgment index, a method for indexing and analyzing acknowledgments in the scientific literature "Acknowledgement" (song), a 1965 song from John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme
A typical aim would be to identify the most important documents in a collection. A classic example is that of the citations between academic articles and books. [1] [2] For another example, judges of law support their judgements by referring back to judgements made in earlier cases (see citation analysis in a legal context).
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William B. Gordon joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 163.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Sub-Saharan Africa is cited as an example for having "13.5% of the global population but less than 1% of global research output". [note 3] This fact is based on data from a World Bank/Elsevier report from 2012 which relies on data from Scopus.