Impact Factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?
A review of Garfield's journal impact factor and its specific implementation as the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor reveals several weaknesses in this commonly-used indicator of journal standing.
A Andrade +201 more
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Making the most of self citation [PDF]
Editor-Nick Craddock and coauthors' exposition of Selfcite 2.0 shows the limitations of self citation.1 Failure to carry out an adequate literature search has resulted in them failing to uncover my own best selling citation software Egocite.2 This has already reached version 6.0 and comes with an interactive CDROM to allow a weekly updating of your ...
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The Hirsch-index in self-citation rates with articles in Medicine (Baltimore): Bibliometric analysis of publications in two stages from 2018 to 2021. [PDF]
Liu MY, Chien TW, Chou W.
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Does “Evaluating Journal Quality and the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars Journal Basket…” Support the Basket with Bibliometric Measures? [PDF]
We re-examine “Evaluating Journal Quality and the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars Journal Basket…” by Lowry et al. (2013). They sought to use bibliometric methods to validate the Basket as the eight top quality journals that are ...
Stewart, Alex, Cotton, John L.
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How are Journal Impact, Prestige and Article Influence Related? An Application to Neuroscience. [PDF]
The paper analyses the leading journals in Neurosciences using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAM), highlights the similarities and differences in alternative RAM, shows that several RAM capture similar performance characteristics of highly ...
Chia-Lin Chang +2 more
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Background and Aim: Self-citation, as one of the limitations of citation analysis, unusually affects the ranking of journals. This study aims to evaluate the degree of relationship between self-citation and immediacy index correlation of Iranian medical ...
Hiwa Abdekhoda +2 more
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The influence of policies limiting author self-citations on journals impact factor and self-citation rate in respiratory system. [PDF]
Sanfilippo F +4 more
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Me, myself, and I: self-citation rates are higher in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures [PDF]
Citing your own work when publishing a paper may be seen as a way of promoting yourself in academia, as how frequently a paper is cited is often viewed as a measure of its importance.
Deschacht, Nick
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The physics of journal self-citation
ABSTRACT Purpose This study explores the implications of low journal self-citation rate (LJSCR). While some interpret LJSCR as a sign that a journal’s authors do not cite each other’s work, others see it as a mark of prestige, reflecting greater recognition from outside the journal.
Giacomin, Alan Jeffrey +3 more
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Impact of country self citation on the ranking of the top 50 countries in clinical neurology. [PDF]
Bardeesi AM +3 more
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