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## See related editorial, p 366. Study objective: To assess the prevalence of misrepresented citations among emergency medicine residency applicants and to determine whether misrepresentation increases as the number of citations increases. Methods: We examined 350 consecutive emergency medicine residency applications and then reviewed all cited publications to determine whether they were genuine or misrepresented. Applicants with citations were divided into three groups: those who listed one citation, those with two to four citations, and those with five or more citations. The numbers of individuals and misrepresentations were then tabulated and compared among the groups. Results: Publications were cited on 113 applications (32.3%). Twenty-three applicants (20.4% of those who cited publications and 6.6% of all applicants) misrepresented citations. Misrepresentations were found in 8 of 56 applications listing single citations (14.3%), 8 of 46 applications (17.4%) claiming two to four citations, and 7 of 11 (63.6%) applications claiming five or more citations (P=.00081, Pearson X; 2 test). ## Conclusion: Emergency medicine residency applications may contain misrepresented citations.

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Author

Swaminatha V Gurudevan; William R Mower

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1097-6760)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)