Are journal and author self-citations a visibility strategy?

Autor/inn/en	González-Sala, Francisco; Osca-Lluch, Julia; Haba-Osca, Julia
Titel	Are journal and author self-citations a visibility strategy?
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2019) 3, S.1345-1364 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-019-03101-3
Schlagwörter	Psychology journals; Web of Science; Citation analysis; Self-citation; Citation strategies
Abstract	Abstract This study is aimed at analysing self-citation as a strategy used by journals and authors regarding first citations in of Latin-American psychology journals between 2012 and 2016. A total of 8977 citations received were analysed for a total of 2403 papers published in the 19 Latin-American psychology journals collected in the 2016 WoS (included in the 2015 JCR edition). The results indicate that there is an effect of the first self-citations on the number of citations, the journal self-citations and the author’s. It is observed that the journal self-citations and first journal self-citations are more important for the journals located in first quartiles, versus author’s self-citations. The importance of the type of self-citation differs between some publications and others, being the journal self-citations those that greater differences present between journals throughout the period studied. The self-consumption of information, according to the number of articles with self-citations, varies between the journals, ranging between 88.8 and 55.8%. It can be concluded that self-citations and first self-citations play an important role in the citation of the works and in the increase of their visibility.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05