Exploring a Researcher's Personal Research History through Self-Citation Network and Citation Identity

Citation and self-citation in medical research in Iran

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences | May 2014 | 385 Observation of constant increase of self-citation rate by Iranian scholars in all fi elds shows that self-citation plays an important role in scientifi c communication even in the fi eld of medicine. Base on Ghane’s study[8] the rate of journal self-citation among Iranian medical journals is about 61.5% and with reared to the Iranian auth...

Journal Self-Citation III: Exploring the Self-Citation Patterns in MIS Journals

Self-citation is a common practice in the research community. It includes citing one’s own papers and one’s target journal. A recent action by a publisher requesting each author of its journal to cite at least five papers published by the journal calls for a study of the self-citation patterns in MIS journals. This study intends to examine the cited table and the citing table in the database of...

Identity Uncertainty and Citation Matching

Identity uncertainty is a pervasive problem in real-world data analysis. It arises whenever objects are not labeled with unique identifiers or when those identifiers may not be perceived perfectly. In such cases, two observations may or may not correspond to the same object. In this paper, we consider the problem in the context of citation matching—the problem of deciding which citations corres...

Citation analysis and network drawing of schizophrenia-related articles

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to analyze and draw up a citation network of published schizophrenia-related resources in Iran from 2012 to 2016 so that this citation network provides a guidance for researchers and acquisition in information centers by specifying the status of resources and researchers in Iran. Material and methods: The current study was conducted through citation...

Journal Self-Citation XIX: Self-Plagiarism and Self-Citation - A Practical Guide Based on Underlying Principles