Major bibliographic errors in PubMed: personal experience among 240 publications and proposed remediation process for errors

Abstract

Although substantial data exist on errors in bibliographic citations in journal articles [1], literature review reveals no data on errors in bibliographic citations in PubMed. Yet bibliographic errors in PubMed are much more important than errors in individual journals. PubMed is a ubiquitous literature search engine. Errors in PubMed could render articles inaccessible to researchers or clinicians performing computerized literature searches.