A bibliometric approach to the role of author self-citations in scientific communication
A bibliometric approach to the role of author self-citations in scientific communication
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DOI：
10.1023/b:scie.0000013299.38210.74
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Schlemmer, B
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文献类型：
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作者：
Glänzel, W;Thijs, B;Schlemmer, B
本文分析了作者自引的作用，旨在发现文献化科学传播过程中自引的基本特征，从而为在任何聚合水平的实证研究中对自引模式进行可能的批判性审视奠定方法论基础。本研究分为三个部分，第一部分是关于自引和非自引的老化的比较分析，第二部分是关于自引和外文引文之间可能的相互依赖关系的分析，第三部分是关于自引在引文中所占比例与其他引文指标之间的相互关系的分析。首先，研究结果表明，作者自引-至少在宏观层面上-是引用过程的一个有机组成部分，它遵守可以借助数学模型加以衡量和描述的规则。其次，这些规则可用于评价性微观和中观分析，以确定与参考标准的重大偏差。
The present paper analyses the role of author self-citations aiming at finding basic regularities of self-citations within the process of documented scientific communication and thus laying the methodological groundwork for a possible critical view at self-citation patterns in empirical studies at any level of aggregation. The study consists of three parts; the first part of the study is concerned with the comparative analysis of the ageing of self-citations and of non-self citations, in the second part the possible interdependence between self-citations and foreign citations is analysed and in the third part the interrelation of the share of self-citations in all citations with other citation-based indicators is studied.The outcomes of this study are two-fold; first, the results characterise author self-citations - at least at the macro level - as an organic part of the citation process obeying rules that can be measured and described with the help of mathematical models. Second, these rules can be used in evaluative micro and meso analyses to identify significant deviations from the reference standards.