The weight of author self-citations. A fractional approach to self-citation counting

András Schubert (), Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs
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András Schubert: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang Glänzel: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Bart Thijs: Steunpunt O&O Statistieken

Scientometrics, 2006, vol. 67, issue 3, No 11, 503-514

Abstract: Abstract The discussion about how to treat author self-citations driven by policy application and quality measurement intensified in the last years. The definition introduced by Snyder and Bonzi has — in lack of any reasonable alternative — been used in bibliometric practice for science policy purposes. This method, however, does not take into account the weight of self-citing authors among coauthors of both the cited and citing papers. The objective of the present paper is to quantify the weight of self-citations with respect to co-authorship. The analysis is conducted at two levels: at the macro level, namely, for fifteen subject fields and the most active forty countries, and at the meso level, for a set of selected research institutions.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.3.11

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