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 sel...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Caspar Chorus, Ludo Waltman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4999059?pdf=render

Similar Items