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

Ernesto Gianoli and Marco A. Molina‐Montenegro

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009, vol. 60, issue 6, 1283-1285

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2009
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