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Insights into the relationship between the h‐index and self‐citations

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  • Ernesto Gianoli
  • Marco A. Molina‐Montenegro

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We analyze the publication output of 119 Chilean ecologists and find strong evidence that self‐citations significantly affect the h‐index increase. Furthermore, we show that the relationship between the increase in the h‐index and the proportion of self‐citations differs between high and low h‐index researchers. In particular, our results show that it is in the low h‐index group where self‐citations cause the greater impact.

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  • Ernesto Gianoli & Marco A. Molina‐Montenegro, 2009. "Insights into the relationship between the h‐index and self‐citations," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 60(6), pages 1283-1285, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:60:y:2009:i:6:p:1283-1285
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21042
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    1. Frode Eika Sandnes, 2020. "A simple back-of-the-envelope test for self-citations using Google Scholar author profiles," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 124(2), pages 1685-1689, August.
    2. Liyue Chen & Jielan Ding & Vincent Larivière, 2022. "Measuring the citation context of national self‐references," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(5), pages 671-686, May.
    3. Martin Szomszor & David A. Pendlebury & Jonathan Adams, 2020. "How much is too much? The difference between research influence and self-citation excess," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 123(2), pages 1119-1147, May.

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