29.08.2016
A Large-Scale Analysis of Impact Factor Biased Journal Self-Citations
« Based on three decades of citation data from across scientific fields of science, we study trends in impact factor biased self-citations of scholarly journals, using a purpose-built and easy to use citation based measure. Our measure is given by the ratio between i) the relative share of journal self-citations to papers published in the last two years, and ii) the relative share of journal self-citations to papers published in preceding years. (…) »
source > journals.plos.org, Caspar Chorus, Ludo Waltman, 25 août 2016
