The prevalence of synchronous self-citation practices at the institutional level
| Autor: | Sumeer Gul, Tariq Ahmad Shah, Huma Shafiq |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Computer science
05 social sciences Significant difference Scopus Library science Library and Information Sciences 050905 science studies Positive correlation Institutional level Self citation Significant positive correlation 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Citation Productivity Demography |
| Zdroj: | Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science. 22:1-14 |
| ISSN: | 1394-6234 |
| DOI: | 10.22452/mjlis.vol22no1.1 |
| Popis: | Self-citation behaviour of authors affiliated to an institution was studied through synchronous self-citation analysis. From 2004 through 2015, Web of Science and SciVerse Scopus databases indexed a total of 1503 articles by authors affiliated to a university in India. Self-citations were prevalent in 62.23 percent of works and significant difference is observed in self-citation pattern with regard to co-authorship, size of reference list, authors’ productivity, citation age, citation over time, and reputation of source publications. Statistically positive correlation is observed between number of co-authors and number of self-citations (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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