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Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research

Marshall, Joe; Linehan, Conor; Spence, Jocelyn; Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan

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Authors

Conor Linehan

Jocelyn Spence

Stefan Rennick-Egglestone



Abstract

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.

Citation

Marshall, J., Linehan, C., Spence, J., & Rennick-Egglestone, S. Throwaway citation of prior work creates risk of bad HCI research. Presented at CHI 2017: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Conference Name CHI 2017: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
End Date May 11, 2017
Acceptance Date Feb 10, 2017
Publication Date May 6, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date May 6, 2017
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Keywords Bad HCI, Citation context analysis, Referencing
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/859396
Publisher URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3027063.3052751
Related Public URLs https://chi2017.acm.org/
Additional Information Published in: CHI EA '17: proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4656-6. pp. 827-836. doi: 10.1145/3027063.3052751
Contract Date Mar 9, 2017

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