Do journals raise their impact factor or SCImago ranking by self‐citing in editorials? A bibliometric analysis of trauma and orthopaedic journals
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Citation analysis of orthopaedic literature; 18 major orthopaedic journals compared for Impact Factor and SCImago
BACKGROUND One of the disadvantages of the Impact Factor (IF) is self-citation. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator excludes self-citations and considers the quality, rather than absolute numbers, of citations of a journal by other journals. The present study re-evaluated the influence of self-citation on the 2007 IF for 18 major orthopaedic journals and investigated the difference in rank...
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عنوان ژورنال: ANZ Journal of Surgery
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1445-1433,1445-2197
DOI: 10.1111/ans.16546