Title: References-based search methodology for assuring acceptable quality of a query research article

Authors: Ranjeet Kumar; Ramesh Chandra Tripathi

Addresses: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, Allahabad, UP, India ' Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, Allahabad, UP, India

Abstract: It has been noted many a times that some new author(s) cite irrelevant references in their research article and at the same time skip the most genuine references having a bearing on the subject matter. In the growing academic research publications, assessing therefore the relevancy of references cited in a research document becomes a major concern in the current internet age. At the same time some of the research articles published in the conferences-proceedings are found to have some contents questionable in terms of copyrights. In the present paper, development of a references-based tool for first hand assuring acceptable quality of a query research article simply-based on references is described subject to the reach of the repository used. The tool also reports the relevancy check-up of the references in the query research article so as to make the references compact and also check plagiarism on self created repository of most likely research articles as the resources.

Keywords: references-based search; citation relevancy; textual plagiarism; content similarity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2017.085021

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2017 Vol.16 No.3, pp.237 - 253

Accepted: 03 Feb 2016
Published online: 10 Jul 2017 *

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