Journal self-citation rates in ecological sciences

Twitter Predicts Citation Rates of Ecological Research

The relationship between traditional metrics of research impact (e.g., number of citations) and alternative metrics (altmetrics) such as Twitter activity are of great interest, but remain imprecisely quantified. We used generalized linear mixed modeling to estimate the relative effects of Twitter activity, journal impact factor, and time since publication on Web of Science citation rates of 1,5...

Journal Self-Citation VI: Forced Journal Self-Citation - Common, Appropriate, Ethical?

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

Journal Self-Citation XIX: Self-Plagiarism and Self-Citation - A Practical Guide Based on Underlying Principles

Journal Self-Citation III: Exploring the Self-Citation Patterns in MIS Journals

Self-citation is a common practice in the research community. It includes citing one’s own papers and one’s target journal. A recent action by a publisher requesting each author of its journal to cite at least five papers published by the journal calls for a study of the self-citation patterns in MIS journals. This study intends to examine the cited table and the citing table in the database of...