normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: providing free access to the latest research and more publishing channels, open access (oa) is hoped to decrease the south countries' information poverty and professional isolation. due to its particular importance, it is necessary to investigate how they exploit open access resources. methods: applying a cit...

since reference practices influence journal impact factor (jif), author self- citation (asc), number of times an author cites herself / himself, and journal self-citation (jsc), number of times the journal cites itself, as a portion of total citations should be considered in citation analysis. isi provides quantitative indicators for publications in english language. therefore, those scientific...

We investigate the changes in self-citation behavior of Italian professors following introduction a citation-based incentive scheme, for national accreditation to academic appointments. Previous contributions on have either focused small samples or relied simple models, not controlling enough confounding factors. The present work adopts complex statistics model implemented bibliometric individu...

librarians are frequently consulted about proper citation formats and support the use of pc-based personal bibliographic citation management programs, such as endnote, often used by faculty and graduate students. recently, free or inexpensive web-based tools have been developed that create citations and format bibliographies. an analysis of citations generated by these programs shows that they ...