Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists

Abstract Background: We determine the occurrence of self-citations among 36 Chilean ecologists with the highest h index values recorded in Web of Science. Because the practice of self-citation is perceived as negative by inflating a given researcher's impact factor, we evaluate if those ecolog...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Rau,Jaime R., Jaksic,Fabian M.
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2020
Materias:	Web of Science Google Scholar h-index self-citations test
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2020000100600
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:scielo:S0716-078X2020000100600
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20200001006002021-04-28Few self-citations among Chilean ecologistsRau,Jaime R.Jaksic,Fabian M. Web of Science Google Scholar h-index self-citations test Abstract Background: We determine the occurrence of self-citations among 36 Chilean ecologists with the highest h index values recorded in Web of Science. Because the practice of self-citation is perceived as negative by inflating a given researcher's impact factor, we evaluate if those ecologists (five of them having been awarded the National Prize in Natural Sciences) tend unduly to self-citation, or alternately, receive citations from others ostensibly because their peers recognize their theoretical and empirical output. Methods and findings: We use a recently proposed self-citation estimate easily calculated from h index values recorded in the restricted-access Web of Science (Wos) database and the open-access Google Scholar's (GS) Researcher Profiles and compare these metrics. Conclusions: The Chilean ecologists showed low self-citation values, independently of their status as National Prize awardees. Their publications were highly cited by unrelated peers, likely on account of their novelty or quality. Among middle-aged (50–60 year) and young (< 50 year) Chilean ecologists open-access GS h index values are significantly correlated with those from WoS, thus rendering expeditious this method of citation assessment.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.93 20202020-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2020000100600en10.1186/s40693-020-00097-6
institution	Scielo Chile
collection	Scielo Chile
language	English
topic	Web of Science Google Scholar h-index self-citations test
spellingShingle	Web of Science Google Scholar h-index self-citations test Rau,Jaime R. Jaksic,Fabian M. Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists
description	Abstract Background: We determine the occurrence of self-citations among 36 Chilean ecologists with the highest h index values recorded in Web of Science. Because the practice of self-citation is perceived as negative by inflating a given researcher's impact factor, we evaluate if those ecologists (five of them having been awarded the National Prize in Natural Sciences) tend unduly to self-citation, or alternately, receive citations from others ostensibly because their peers recognize their theoretical and empirical output. Methods and findings: We use a recently proposed self-citation estimate easily calculated from h index values recorded in the restricted-access Web of Science (Wos) database and the open-access Google Scholar's (GS) Researcher Profiles and compare these metrics. Conclusions: The Chilean ecologists showed low self-citation values, independently of their status as National Prize awardees. Their publications were highly cited by unrelated peers, likely on account of their novelty or quality. Among middle-aged (50–60 year) and young (< 50 year) Chilean ecologists open-access GS h index values are significantly correlated with those from WoS, thus rendering expeditious this method of citation assessment.
author	Rau,Jaime R. Jaksic,Fabian M.
author_facet	Rau,Jaime R. Jaksic,Fabian M.
author_sort	Rau,Jaime R.
title	Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists
title_short	Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists
title_full	Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists
title_fullStr	Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists
title_full_unstemmed	Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists
title_sort	few self-citations among chilean ecologists
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2020
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2020000100600
work_keys_str_mv	AT raujaimer fewselfcitationsamongchileanecologists AT jaksicfabianm fewselfcitationsamongchileanecologists
_version_	1718439712824229888

Few self-citations among Chilean ecologists

Ejemplares similares