Towards knowledge maintenance in scientific digital libraries with keystone citations

Fu, Yuanxi; Schneider, Jodi

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Title

Towards knowledge maintenance in scientific digital libraries with keystone citations

Author(s)

• Fu, Yuanxi
• Schneider, Jodi

Issue Date

2020-08-02

Keyword(s)

• knowledge maintenance
• argumentation theory
• citation contexts
• citation
• knowledge claims
• retraction of research
• citation of retracted papers
• argument retrieval
• scientific literature
• digital libraries

Abstract

Scientific digital libraries speed dissemination of scientific publications, but also the propagation of invalid or unreliable knowledge. Although many papers with known validity problems are highly cited, no auditing process is currently available to determine whether a citing paper’s findings fundamentally depend on invalid or unreliable knowledge. To address this, we introduce a new framework, the keystone framework, designed to identify when and how citing unreliable findings impacts a paper, using argumentation theory and citation context analysis. Through two pilot case studies, we demonstrate how the keystone framework can be applied to knowledge maintenance tasks for digital libraries, including addressing citations of a non-reproducible paper and identifying statements most needing validation in a high-impact paper. We identify roles for librarians, database maintainers, knowledgebase curators, and research software engineers in applying the framework to scientific digital libraries.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Type of Resource

• text
• still image

Language

en

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• http://jodischneider.com/pubs/jcdl2020.pdf
• http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110172

DOI

10.1145/3383583.3398514

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation G-2020-12623

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Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License

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