Zhao, D.; Strotmann, A.; Cappello, A.: In-text function of author self-citations : implications for research evaluation practice (2018)
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- Abstract
- Author self-citations were examined as to their function, frequency, and location in the full text of research articles and compared with external citations. Function analysis was based on manual coding of a small dataset in the field of library and information studies, whereas the analyses by frequency and location used both this small dataset and a large dataset from PubMed Central. Strong evidence was found that self-citations appear more likely to serve as substantial citations in a text than do external citations. This finding challenges previous studies that assumed that self-citations should be discounted or even removed and suggests that self-citations should be given more weight in citation analysis, if anything.
- Source
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69(2018) no.7, S.949-952
