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