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

Guang Yu; Liang Wang

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1779-8

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 73: Issue 3

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

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Guang Yu

Guang Yu

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Liang Wang

Liang Wang Harbin Institute of Technology School of Management Harbin Heilongjiang P. R. China

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Pages:: 321–330

Online Publication Date:: 04 Aug 2007

Publication Date:: 01 Dec 2007

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1779-8

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Abstract

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.

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