Yu, Tian; Yu, Guang; Wang, Ming-Yang - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 123-135
Journal self-citations strongly affect journal evaluation indicators (such as impact factors) at the meso- and micro-levels, and therefore they are often increased artificially to inflate the evaluation indicators in journal evaluation systems. This coercive self-citation is a form of scientific...