Journal article
Do journals raise their impact factor or SCImago ranking by self-citing in editorials? A bibliometric analysis of trauma and orthopaedic journals
- Abstract:
-
Background Impact factor (IF) is widely accepted as a measure of a journal's quality but it can be influenced by self-citation. However, the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is based on journal prestige, excludes self-citation and considers quality of citations of a journal. This study aimed to investigate journal editors' use of self-citation and whether this correlated with IFs or SJR in trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) journals. Methods T&O journals on the SJR database were identified. From each jo...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre
More from this funder
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- ANZ Journal of Surgery Journal website
- Volume:
- 91
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 975-979
- Place of publication:
- Australia
- Publication date:
- 2021-02-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-12-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1445-2197
- ISSN:
-
1445-1433
- Pmid:
-
33559283
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1161644
- Local pid:
- pubs:1161644
- Deposit date:
- 2021-07-01
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Jain et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 The Authors. ANZ Journal of Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record