Self-citations, a trend prevalent across subject disciplines at the global level: an overview
Abstract
Purpose The present study aims to determine the prevailing trend of self-citations across 27 major subject disciplines at global level. The study also examines the aspects like percentage of self-citations in each individual subject discipline and the average number of self-citations per publication across different subject disciplines. The study also investigates self-citation percentage of research articles published from the 20 leading...
Paper Details
Title
Self-citations, a trend prevalent across subject disciplines at the global level: an overview
Published Date
Jul 3, 2017
Journal
Volume
36
Issue
3
Pages
115 - 126
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