Coercive journal self citations, impact factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence

Coercive journal self citations, impact factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence

This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article Influence score, using the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (hereafter ISI) data for 2009 for the 200 most highly cited journals in each of the Sciences ...

Self Citations , Impact Factor , Journal Influence and Article Influence

Impact Factor , Eigenfactor , Journal Influence and Article Influence

Journal impact factors and self-citations: implications for psychology journals.

that it is a misinterpretation of the Steele and Aronson (1995) results to conclude that eliminating stereotype threat eliminates the African American–White test-score gap. They agree that we have identified multiple mischaracterizations of their work in media reports, journal articles, and textbooks, which wrongly interpret their work as finding that eliminating stereotype threat did indeed el...

Dynamic Impact Factors and Escalating Journal Self Citations

Department of Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Department of Economics, Emory University d Department of Quantitative Finance,National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan e Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. f Tinbergen Institute, The Nethe...