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Self-citation rate and impact factor in pediatrics

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  • Michael Mimouni

    (Rambam Health Care Campus)

  • Motti Ratmansky

    (Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital
    Tel-Aviv University)

  • Yaron Sacher

    (Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital
    Tel-Aviv University)

  • Sharon Aharoni

    (Tel-Aviv University
    Schneider Children’s Medical Center)

  • Aviva Mimouni-Bloch

    (Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital
    Tel-Aviv University)

Abstract

A journal’s impact factor (IF) may be boosted by increasing self-citations. We aimed to determine the self-citation rate (SCR) of pediatric journals registered in the Journal Citations Report (JCR), to evaluate the impact of SCR upon the IF and to determine the effect of the SCR of a journal on its IF. We found 117 journals categorized as pediatric journals by the JCR (as of 2013). The median and range of SCR, IF and corrected IF (IF without self-citations) were 9 % (0–30 %), 1.54 (0–6.35) and 1.37 (0–5.87) respectively. No differences were found between general and subspecialty journals in terms of SCR, IF or corrected IF. Spearman’s ranked correlation showed that IF was significantly and inversely correlated with SCR (r = −0.28, P = 0.002; R 2 = 0.08). There was a significant difference between IF and corrected IF among all journals (1.74 ± 1.04 vs 1.59 ± 0.98, P

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  • Michael Mimouni & Motti Ratmansky & Yaron Sacher & Sharon Aharoni & Aviva Mimouni-Bloch, 2016. "Self-citation rate and impact factor in pediatrics," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 108(3), pages 1455-1460, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:108:y:2016:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-016-2025-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2025-z
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    Cited by:

    1. Mingyang Wang & Shijia Jiao & Kah-Hin Chai & Guangsheng Chen, 2019. "Building journal’s long-term impact: using indicators detected from the sustained active articles," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 121(1), pages 261-283, October.
    2. Meijun Liu & Dongbo Shi & Jiang Li, 2017. "Double-edged sword of interdisciplinary knowledge flow from hard sciences to humanities and social sciences: Evidence from China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(9), pages 1-16, September.
    3. Juan Miguel Campanario, 2018. "Journals that Rise from the Fourth Quartile to the First Quartile in Six Years or Less: Mechanisms of Change and the Role of Journal Self-Citations," Publications, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-15, November.

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