Extinct citations, missing links and other bibliographical wonders -- Internet's coming of age : the stone age, that is, as far as citation -- A brief history of footnote flight -- The half-life of online footnotes -- What, in fact, causes footnotes to vanish? -- Opinions versus…
The footnote safeguarded scientific method and peer review upon which academe is based, from papers by first-year and transfer students to books by postdocs and professors. Bugeja and Dimitrova report on the erosion of online footnotes and its implication for scholarship. They d…
Since 2003, authors Michael Bugeja and Daniela Dimitrova (Iowa State University of Science and Technology) have been at the forefront of research on the erosion of online footnotes and its implication for scholarship. Their research has been showcased in The Chronicle of Higher …