The self-cited rate of scientific journals and the manipulation of their impact factors

被引：47

作者：

Yu, Guang ^{[1
]}

Wang, Liang ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Harbin Inst Technol, Sch Management, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, Peoples R China

来源：

SCIENTOMETRICS | 2007年 / 73卷 / 03期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1007/s11192-007-1779-8

中图分类号：

TP39 [计算机的应用];

学科分类号：

081203 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

Owing to some discussions about manipulating impact factor by requesting authors to increase their citations to the publication journal, we theoretically establish a mathematical expression of a relation between the journal self-citation rate and its impact factor by the single-factor method in this paper. Based on self-citation data of some journals in JCR and the observed relation between journal impact factor and the self-cited rate, we analyze the possibility that journal editors manipulate impact factors of their journals by raising the self-cited rate. Finally, we make some suggestions for supervising this crude way of active manipulating the impact factor.

引用

页码：321 / 330

页数：10

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