#selfcitation — Public Fediverse posts

Not a good look for MDPI and Frontiers: a new preprint finds clear signs of self-citation having boosted their journals' Impact Factors.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5t8v7

#JournalImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #ImpactFactor #SelfCitation #AcademicPublishing #JournalPublication

My new publication in #Scientometrics about university rankings. If you self-cite your papers too much, a hump will form in the visualization of your h-index. Does the presence of a hump necessarily indicate #manipulation? – Not necessarily, but it is an interesting anomaly in the #citation data:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04886-0

#citations #hindex #selfcitation #university #rankings #Scopus

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews