Improved citation status ofWorld Journal Gastroenterologyin 2004: Analysis of all reference citations byWJGand citations ofWJGarticles by other SCI journals during 1998-2004

Journal Self-Citation IV: Citations Analysis of IS Journals - Separating Facts from Fiction

This article is inspired by a recent posting on the AISWorld listserv eliciting thoughts on the practice of self-citations by journals in the IS field. While emotions ran high in the ensuing online discussion, we try to provide an objective and informed analysis of the actual citation patterns of both top tier journals and non-top tier journals. Results show that the practice of selfcitation is...

Journal Self-Citation XII: The Ethics of Forced Journal Citations

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...

Arrogant misquotations from reference citations

It is very easy to fi nd medical references these days, as computers are now in general use and we appreciate the endless benefi ts that they bring. In earlier times, though, perhaps as recently as 10 years ago, one had to work very hard searching for references using the " List of Journals Indexed for the Japan Medical Abstracts Society Database, " printed and published periodically. However, ...

Valuing Indirect Citations in Citation Networks using Data Fusion

Any scientific activity requires awareness of previous related activities. Citation networks are the networks in which each document is compared as a link of a chain with its previous and next documents, and the documents with the highest number of citations are considered as the most effective ones in a domain. Most of the introduced methods use direct citations for valuing the documents. One ...