Should self-citations be included or excluded from measures of academic performance? [PDF]
There has been much discussion over how useful citation metrics, like Google Scholar’s H-index, really are and to what extent they can be gamed. Specifically there appears to be concern over the practice of self-citation as it varies widely between ...
Public Policy Group, LSE
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Citation gaming induced by bibliometric evaluation: a country-level comparative analysis [PDF]
It is several years since national research evaluation systems around the globe started making use of quantitative indicators to measure the performance of researchers.
Baccini, Alberto +2 more
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The art and science of self‐citations
elf-citation is the use of your previous work to support your current work. The previous work should provide the foundation of the supporting argument to justify your current work, and the citation should show that your previous work explicitly underpins your current work. This is the ‘science’ of self-citation.
John B. Lowe, Priscilla Robinson
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Slovenia's Current Research Information System (SICRIS) currently hosts 86,443 publications with citation data from 8,359 researchers working on the whole plethora of social and natural sciences from 1970 till present.
Adam +52 more
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Intrinsically Dynamic Network Communities [PDF]
Community finding algorithms for networks have recently been extended to dynamic data. Most of these recent methods aim at exhibiting community partitions from successive graph snapshots and thereafter connecting or smoothing these partitions using ...
Mitra, Bivas +2 more
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圖書資訊學期刊自我引用分析 A Self Citation Study on Journals of Library and Information Science [PDF]
本文就2005年社會科學引文索引(Social Sciences Citation Index)之期刊引用報告(Journal Citation Reports)資料庫,所收錄53種圖書資訊學期刊之引用數據特性,加以分析介紹,進而就期刊同時法自我引用、期刊歷時法自我引用與各引用數據之相關性,分別進行統計檢測,並就二種自我引用率驗證其異同。By searching the Journal Citation Reports of Social Sciences Citation Index database,
Ming-Yueh Tsay, Mei-Chi Chang
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Weighted citation: An indicator of an article's prestige [PDF]
We propose using the technique of weighted citation to measure an article's prestige. The technique allocates a different weight to each reference by taking into account the impact of citing journals and citation time intervals.
Ding, Ying, Yan, Erjia
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Comparison of Iranian Scholarly Papers Indexed In Iranian Science Citations and Web of Science with Emphasis on Self-Citation [PDF]
Objective: The present investigation compares the degree of self-citation of Iranian scholarly publications indexed in both Iranian Science Citation (ISC) and ISI’s Web of Science (WoS). The study covers the 2005-2009period.
Mohsen Nowkarizi, F Farkhari
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Correlation of Journal Self-Citation with Journal Impact Factors as Reported by Islamic Science Citation Database for Technology and Engineering Academic Journals Published During 2001-2007 Period. [PDF]
Objective: Correlation of journal self-citation with journal impact factors as reported by Islamic Science Citation Database for technology and engineering academic journals published in Farsi during 2001-2007 periods.
Jafar Mehrad, marzieh goltaji
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Citations and Impact of ISI Tourism and Hospitality Journals [PDF]
The paper analyses the leading international journals in Tourism and Hospitality Research using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), highlights the similarities and differences in alternative RAMs, shows that several RAMs capture similar ...
Chia-Lin Chang, Michael McAleer
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