Quarter of citations in top journals ‘wrong or misleading’

If I had £1 for every time an article that cites me has done so incorrectly or without sufficient care - often entirely misrepresenting me - I wouldn't need to go to work! And in some cases such poor citing appears in theses that I've been asked to examine - and that the author must know I would be reading. It's unfathomable. One approach would be for editors to send copies of a submitted article to as many of the cited authors that are still alive and available, asking them simply to check for accuracy. But in the social sciences - my discipline - where journal editors typically do the job as an aside, with little or no payment, and minimal clerical support, that would be far too time-consuming in practice.