“…Citation analyses of upper-level and graduate-level literature reviews, theses, and dissertations show that as students progress up the curriculum, they tend to cite increasingly more sources, and more scholarly sources [11], [12]. Other studies indicate some significant challenges with IL skills, including trends like overreliance on websites, lack of diversity in sources [13], [14], inaccurate citations [11], [13], [15], lack of experience with patent searching [16], and lack of deep engagement with the primary literature [17]. In 2022, Xie & Savory found that graduate students generally did well with gathering quality sources, but many produced summaries of those sources rather than critical evaluations or syntheses of the information [15].…”