BACKGROUND The past 3 decades have witnessed a boost in science development in China; in parallel, more and more Chinese scientific journals are indexed by the Journal Citation Reports issued by Thomson Reuters (SCI). Evaluation of the performance of these Chinese SCI journals is necessary and helpful to improve their quality. This study aimed to evaluate these journals by calculating various j...

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...

A key process of any citation analysis study is to map the coded citation data from a high-dimensional dataset to a lower dimensional one while detecting the groups, clusters, patterns or other features of the citation relationships. Over the years, many methods have been used in various studies, including multi-dimensional scaling, Pathfinder networks, Kohonen’s self-organizing mapping, etc. M...

In the paper very efficient, linear in number of arcs, algorithms for determining Hummon and Doreian’s arc weights SPLC and SPNP in citation network are proposed, and some theoretical properties of these weights are presented. The nonacyclicity problem in citation networks is discussed. An approach to identify on the basis of arc weights an important small subnetwork is proposed and illustrated...