• Except for a very few high-impact journals, almost all journals’ impact factor rankings change when self-citations are excluded from the calculation. Self-citations important non-English speaking academic communities. Not journals equal, and so it is quite problematic to assess them using one formula. It policymakers understand underlying problems related Self-citation patterns of 1,104 index...

Editor—Compulsory self-citation and artificial self-promotion represent poor publishing practice.1Ioannidis J.P.A. Baas J. Klavans R. Boyack K.W. A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field.PLoS Biol. 2019; 17e3000384Crossref PubMed Scopus (79) Google Scholar,2Van Noorden Singh Chawla D. Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database.Natur...

We investigate the changes in self-citation behavior of Italian professors following introduction a citation-based incentive scheme, for national accreditation to academic appointments. Previous contributions on have either focused small samples or relied simple models, not controlling enough confounding factors. The present work adopts complex statistics model implemented bibliometric individu...