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Self Citations , Impact Factor , Journal Influence and Article Influence

The Recurrence of Citations within a Scientific Article

Although listed at the tail of a scientific article only once, a reference is usually cited repeatedly inside the full text of the article. In this research, we investigated the universality of recurring citations in Journal of Informetrics. About 1/4 references are repeatedly cited. For these repeatedly cited references, their citation location and citation context for the first and subsequent...

Identifying Anomalous Citations for Objective Evaluation of Scholarly Article Impact

Evaluating the impact of a scholarly article is of great significance and has attracted great attentions. Although citation-based evaluation approaches have been widely used, these approaches face limitations e.g. in identifying anomalous citations patterns. This negligence would inevitably cause unfairness and inaccuracy to the article impact evaluation. In this study, in order to discover the...

Normalized Similarity Index: An adjusted index to prioritize article citations

One of the main applications of citation is to find articles that are relevant to a particular article. However, not all citations are equally relevant to the target article. This paper presents an approach to identify the most relevant citation(s). To this end, the Normalized Similarity Index (NSI) is proposed to quantify the similarity between the source and target of a citation base on the c...