1. Introduction -- 2. Philosophical underpinnings -- 3. Components of text in documents -- 4. Collection and compilation of text in documentary research -- 5. Examples of published studies using documentary evidence -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Sources of documents -- Index.

The growing institutional significance of impact factors and journal rankings currently stands alongside serious concerns about the scale and distorting effects of the practice of coercive journal self-citation. Survey-based studies have highlighted journals suspected of such coercion but there...