TY - GEN
T1 - Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research
AU - Marshall, Joe
AU - Linehan, Conor
AU - Spence, Jocelyn
AU - Egglestone, Stefan Rennick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
PY - 2017/5/6
Y1 - 2017/5/6
N2 - In CHI papers, citation of previous work is typically a shallow, throwaway action that demonstrates little critical engagement with the work cited. We present a citation context analysis of over 3000 citations from 69 papers at CHI2016, which demonstrates that only 4.8% of papers cited are presented as anything other than uncontested fact. In 43% of CHI papers sampled, we found no evidence of any critical engagement. Lack of discussion and critique of previous work can encourage the spread of misunderstandings and errors. Authors, reviewers and publication venues must all change practices to respond to this failure of scholarship.
AB - In CHI papers, citation of previous work is typically a shallow, throwaway action that demonstrates little critical engagement with the work cited. We present a citation context analysis of over 3000 citations from 69 papers at CHI2016, which demonstrates that only 4.8% of papers cited are presented as anything other than uncontested fact. In 43% of CHI papers sampled, we found no evidence of any critical engagement. Lack of discussion and critique of previous work can encourage the spread of misunderstandings and errors. Authors, reviewers and publication venues must all change practices to respond to this failure of scholarship.
KW - Bad HCI
KW - Citation context analysis
KW - Referencing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85019575526
U2 - 10.1145/3027063.3052751
DO - 10.1145/3027063.3052751
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85019575526
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 827
EP - 836
BT - CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
ER -