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Article Excerpt
Omitted Citations
Wright and Armstrong claim that "authors often overlook relevant research." I share their concern. One reason is that people search for evidence only within their own discipline. As a geographical scientist now working in marketing and management, this is particularly apparent to me in areas such as diffusion research. It is curious how marketers with an interest in the diffusion of ideas and products make few direct references to work published in epidemiology or geographical science. There appears to be ignorance of seminal work by Bailey, Bartholomew, Bartlett, Cliff, Hagerstrand, Haggett, Kendall, Kermack, McKendrick, and Ord (among others). Unfamiliarity with other disciplines explains this partially. In addition, people might consciously filter out work from other disciplines in the belief that cross-disciplinary citations unduly complicate the peer-review process. Will the editor feel obliged to send the paper to reviewers from different disciplines? Will this expose the paper to a variety of controversies across disciplines? Will this, in turn, lessen the chances of successful publication? A less generous...
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