🔴 **Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon**

_“In total, we obtained 44,857 papers that have self-citation relations in the WoS raw dataset. In part, they are database artefacts but in part they are due to papers citing themselves in the conclusion or appendix. We also found cases where paper self-citations occur due to publisher-made highlights promoting and citing the paper.”_

Haunschild, R. and Bornmann, L. (2025) Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324v1.

#Academia #Academics #SelfCitation #Citations

Not a good look for MDPI and Frontiers: a new preprint finds clear signs of self-citation having boosted their journals' Impact Factors.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5t8v7

#JournalImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #ImpactFactor #SelfCitation #AcademicPublishing #JournalPublication

My new publication in #Scientometrics about university rankings. If you self-cite your papers too much, a hump will form in the visualization of your h-index. Does the presence of a hump necessarily indicate #manipulation? – Not necessarily, but it is an interesting anomaly in the #citation data:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04886-0

#citations #hindex #selfcitation #university #rankings #Scopus

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

Prolific #autism researcher has two dozen papers retracted

👉 An autism researcher lost two dozen papers to #retraction 8 years after the publisher was made aware of potentially troubling editorial practices. #Elsevier cited undisclosed conflicts of interest, duplicated methodology and a “compromised” #peerreview process as reasons for the #retractions.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/prolific-autism-researcher-has-two-dozen-papers-retracted/

#peerreviewing #research #science #ethics #Publishing #selfcitation #metrics