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weLL-done Literature reviews
and key concepts. It is characterized by literature reviews that
cite an article that cites an article. Instead of following up to
the source document, the authors are content to cite the docu-
ment they are reviewing as the source document. (An exam-
ple would be citing a Jennex (xxxx) article for a point made by
Alavi and Leidner (xxxx) because the author has the Jennex
article but not the Alavi and Leidner article.) is issue is
potentially the most damaging as it causes authors not to
build on the existing body of knowledge and can potentially
damage colleagues by not giving the appropriate credit where
it is due. e issue is becoming more prevalent due to authors
citing Wikipedia instead of the source citation; ...