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The importance of citing

Retraction Watch website

So why bother citing references and provide correct data?

Take a look at Retraction Watch Website.
Even though a journal article undergoes a publisher's peer review process, it can still be retracted from it has been published in the journal, if plagiarism, incorrect data or unprofessional behavior has been reported.
Be aware that RIT faculty use Turnitin to check for plagiarism in papers.

-Journal publishers provide their 1.peer review instructions and 2. images permission to authors, which you should double check when you are not sure about an article and about using an image.

-Some databases like Elsevier ScienceDirect, Ebsco make it easy to distinguish original research articles from review articles and peer review articles from other documents.

The best way to distinguish scholarly journal articles is to first look for the author's:

references which will show the author's literature review method. Be suspect of an article that has only 2 or 3 references
conclusion/summary section
results section
method section
introduction
abstract

The evolution and problems in the publishing industry, with journals, books and data...

Types of Documents
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet and no one preserved them By Jeffrey BrainardSep. 8, 2020 , 4:10 PM Eighty-four online-only, open-access (OA) journals in the sciences, and nearly 100 more in the social sciences and humanities, have disappeared from the internet over the past 2 decades as publishers stopped maintaining them, potentially depriving scholars of useful research findings, a study has found. An additional 900 journals published only online also may be at risk of vanishing because they are inactive, .........
Springer Definition of Data Articles Data articles are peer-reviewed, with datasets but with no conclusions or analyses. Purpose: to allowsauthors to get citable credit for their work in generating research data. Publishing a data article does not prevent an author from publishing research papers using that data at a later date.
Elsevier definition-Data Articles
They provide an easy channel for researchers to publish their datasets and receive proper credit and recognition for the work they have done. This is particularly true for replication data, negative datasets or data from intermediate experiments, which often go unpublished.
Data Article Journals
This section examines the characteristics of data journals in the fields of biology, environmental science, chemistry, medicine and health sciences, presenting detailed information on each of the 13 data journals
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Grey Literature Types
The Elephant in the Room: Toward a Definition of Grey Legal Literature * Taryn L. Rucinski **
Rucinski, Taryn L., The Elephant in the Room: Toward a Definition of Grey Legal Literature (December 2015). Law Library Journal, Vol. 107:4, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2708884
RETRACTED ARTICLE See: Retraction Notice
Groundwater contaminations and health perspectives in developing world case study: Gaza Strip.
Shomar B1.
Retraction Watch Database guide
Retraction Watch Staff
Retraction Watch launched in August 2010
Adam Marcus is the managing editor of Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News.
Ivan Oransky, Vice President, Editorial, at Medscape,
Zotero and Retraction Watch
We’re thrilled to announce a collaboration with Zotero, the free and open-source research platform, that will allow its users to be alerted to retractions of any papers in their personal libraries.