An analysis of Web page and Web site constancy and permanence
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The effect of the web on undergraduate citation behavior 1996-1999
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Scholarly use of Internet-based electronic resources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web page change and persistence---a four-year longitudinal study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
HTML: The Complete Reference
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Management Information Systems: Managing Information Technology in the Networked Enterprise
Management Information Systems: Managing Information Technology in the Networked Enterprise
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment
The decay and failures of web references
Communications of the ACM
Information Technology for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy
Information Technology for Management: Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy
Link decay in leading information science journals
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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In this article the results of research that examined the permanence of 1,068 Web-located citations in 123 academic conference articles published between 1995 and 2003 are reported. The study is one of the few but increasing number of investigations that examines the growing practice of authors citing URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) in their publications to support and argue their scholarly research. It was found that some 46% of all citations to Web-located sources could not be accessed—with the HTTP 404 (“Page not found”) message (61.5%) being the greatest cause of missing citations. Collectively, the missing citations accounted for 22.0% of all citations, which represents a significant reduction in the theoretical knowledge base underpinning many scholarly articles. It is argued that the consequences of disappearing Web-located citations has led to diminishing opportunities for future researchers to examination the underlaying foundations of discourse and argument in scholarly articles. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.