Self-Citation Does Not Appear to Artificially Inflate Orthopaedic Journal Ranking.

This study analyzed the top 30 orthopaedic journals to determine which journals had higher self-citation rates and if those rates had any correlation with their impact factors and SCImago Journal Ranks. The study verified that self-citing was more common in specialty journals compared with general orthopaedic journals (p D .002). The results demonstrate a more positive correlation between self-citation and SCImago Journal Rank than impact factor. This finding suggests that the impact factor's inclusion of self-citations should not be thought to artificially inflate the impact factor of the subspecialty journals that most commonly cite their own work. (Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances 27(2):131-135, 2018).
PMID: 30084821 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Journal of surgical orthopaedic advances - August 8, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Surg Orthop Adv Source Type: research