Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Oxley, Les - 2013
This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal … performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article … existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5-year Impact Factor (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a …