Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Oxley, Les - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, … - 2013
This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of two recent journal … existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5- year Impact Factor (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a … self citations. These empirical results are compared with existing results in the bibliometrics literature. …