Measuring national self-referencing patterns of major science producers

Khelfaoui, Mahdi; Larrègue, Julien; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03381-0

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“…On the other hand, country SCR has been on the rise in many nations [8,19]. Recent reports state that the referencing system among the major science-producing countries remains heavily oriented towards national papers in biomedical sciences [9]. It is also reported that the citation national bias was higher for scientific fields of greater national interest than the ones that are more universal [20].…”

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“…In the literature, it has been shown that broadening the network through international collaboration can influence country SCR significantly [8,9,19]. Baccini et al [23] studied the self-citation among G10 countries during 2000-2016 and identified Italy as the country with the highest level of inwardness and the lowest rate of international collaboration.…”

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“…It is typically high as it reflects the summation of self-citations by the individual author and groups of authors as well as institutions from the same country. A considerable part of country SCR, however, is attributed to authors citing their own earlier work [9].…”

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The Impact of Country Self-Citation Rate Among Medical Specialties in Saudi Arabia

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Jamjoom²,

Algahtani³

et al. 2021

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The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of country self-citation rate (SCR) among medical specialties in Saudi Arabia, and to assess the impact of self-citations on the country's total cites world ranking in different specialties. MethodsSCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) was used to collect data related to all medical specialties in Saudi Arabia for the period 1996-2019. The country SCR for the specialties was correlated with several bibliometric parameters and examined statistically. The specialties that showed a drop in Saudi Arabia's total cites world ranking following the exclusion of self-citations were identified. ResultsThe median country SCR for 46 specialties in Saudi Arabia was 9.5% (range: 4.6-23.1%). The two specialties with the highest country SCR were Public Health (23.1%) and Family Practice (22.9%). Country SCR was significantly higher in the non-clinical specialties compared to clinical specialties (15.3% vs. 9.6%). It did not correlate significantly with any of the examined productivity indices. The exclusion of self-citations resulted in a drop in Saudi Arabia's total cites world ranking in six (13%) specialties only. There was no significant difference between the country's total cites and net total cites world rankings in the specialties. ConclusionsSelf-citation may be appropriate and signify an expansion of the authors' previous work. Country SCR in medical specialties in Saudi Arabia is relatively low and not affected by total documents and total cites. Non-clinical specialties tend to self-cite more. The exclusion of self-citations had minimal effect on Saudi Arabia's total cites world ranking, indicating that country SCR in the specialties is unlikely to impact its international scientific standing. Our findings do not support the argument for eliminating self-citation from citation-based metrics. We believe that more collaborative and global research practices should be encouraged.

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The Impact of Country Self-Citation Rate Among Medical Specialties in Saudi Arabia

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Algahtani³

et al. 2021

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“…High country SCR may come from local collaboration networks, meetings and people knowing about each other work locally and choosing to cite it. However, a significant part of country SCR can be attributed to authors citing their previous work [ 14 ].…”

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Impact of country self citation on the ranking of the top 50 countries in clinical neurology

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Objectives To examine the factors that influence country self-citation rate (SCR) in clinical neurology and to assess the impact of self-citation on the ranking of the top 50 countries. Methods SCImago Journal & Country Rank was used to collect data for the 50 most cited countries in clinical neurology during 1996–2019. Country SCR was correlated with several productivity parameters and examined statistically. Countries that dropped in their ranking after the exclusion of self-citations were identified. Results The median (range) country SCR for the 50 most cited countries was 11.3%. (5.3%- 47%). Country SCR correlated significantly with total citable documents and total cites numbers and rankings. The exclusion of self-citations led to a drop in the ranking of 8(16%) countries only. No significant difference between the total and net total cites rankings was observed. Conclusions Self-citation can be appropriate and reflect an expansion on earlier research. Highly cited productive countries tend to have high country SCR. Excluding self-citations had minimal impact on the ranking of the top 50 countries. Our findings indicate that self-citation is unlikely to influence country standing amongst the top 50 and does not support the argument for eliminating self-citations from citation-based metrics. A more globalization through international collaboration in research is encouraged.

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“…The rising emphasis on research evaluation has brought greater scrutiny to the role of self‐citations at various levels. Research found a recent increase in national self‐citation rates (e.g., Jaffe, 2011), although the same could not be said for self‐references (SRs) (Khelfaoui et al, 2020). Although a previous study suggested that national self‐citations were influenced by many factors, including political, cultural, and geographic elements (Bakare & Lewison, 2017; Ladle et al, 2012), there is little research on national self‐citing motivations.…”

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Measuring the citation context of national self‐references

Chen

Ding

Larivière

2021

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The emphasis on research evaluation has brought scrutiny to the role of self-citations in the scholarly communication process. While author selfcitations have been studied at length, little is known on national-level selfreferences (SRs). This paper analyses the citation context of national SRs, using the full-text of 184,859 papers published in PLOS journals. It investigates the differences between national SRs and nonself-references (NSRs) in terms of their in-text mention, presence in enumerations, and location features. For all countries, national SRs exhibit a higher level of engagement than NSRs. NSRs are more often found in enumerative citances than SRs, which suggests that researchers pay more attention to domestic than foreign studies. There are more mentions of national research in the methods section, which provides evidence that methodologies developed in a nation are more likely to be used by other researchers from the same nation. Publications from the United States are cited at a higher rate in each of the sections, indicating that the country still maintains a dominant position in science. On the whole, this paper contributes to a better understanding of the role of national SRs in the scholarly communication system, and how it varies across countries and over time.

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Measuring national self-referencing patterns of major science producers

Cited by 13 publications

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The Impact of Country Self-Citation Rate Among Medical Specialties in Saudi Arabia

The Impact of Country Self-Citation Rate Among Medical Specialties in Saudi Arabia

Impact of country self citation on the ranking of the top 50 countries in clinical neurology

Measuring the citation context of national self‐references

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