background: citation metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold standard for rating researchers and viability of a field. hence, stimulating demand for citation has led to a search for useful strategies to improve performance metric index. meanwhile, title, abstract and morphologic qualities of the articles attract researchers to scientific publications. yet, there is relativ...

Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. Current systems have been long criticized due to shortcomings such as lack of coverage of publications and low accuracy of the citation data. Surprisingly, incomplete or incorrect data are used to make important decisions about researchers' careers. We argue that a new approach based on the collection of citation data at the time the papers ar...

highly cited papers are mostly authored in international collaboration. it is expected that   co-authored papers bring more citations. on the other hand, it is inevitable that a part of citations is self-citation. this study investigates 134 and 236 highly cited papers in iran and turkey, respectively, to determine the extent to which highly cited papers are affected by author self-citation. a ...