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Does co-authorship inflate the share of self-citations?

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  • Wolfgang Glänzel

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Bart Thijs

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven)

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In recent papers, the authors have studied basic regularities of author self-citations. The regularities are related to the ageing, to the relation between self-citations and foreign citations and to the interdependence of self-citations with other bibliometric indicators. The effect of multi-authorship on citation impact has been shown in other bibliometric studies, for instance, by Persson et al. (2004). The question arises whether those regularities imply any relation between number of co-authors and the extent of author self-citations. The results of the present paper confirm the common notion of such effects only in part. The authors show that at the macro level multi-authorship does not result in any exaggerate extent of self-citations.

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  • Wolfgang Glänzel & Bart Thijs, 2004. "Does co-authorship inflate the share of self-citations?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 61(3), pages 395-404, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:61:y:2004:i:3:d:10.1023_b:scie.0000045117.13348.b1
    DOI: 10.1023/B:SCIE.0000045117.13348.b1
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    1. Olle Persson & Wolfgang Glänzel & Rickard Danell, 2004. "Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 60(3), pages 421-432, August.
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