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MODIFIED CITESCORE METRIC FOR REDUCING THE EFFECT OF SELF-CITATIONS

Form of presentation

Articles in international journals and collections

Year of publication

2019

Язык

английский

Authors, employees of KFU

Akhmetshin Elvir Munirovich, author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Okagbue, H. I., Bishop, S. A., Oguntunde, P. E., Adamu, P. I., Opanuga, A. A., & Akhmetshin, E. M. (2019). Modified CiteScore metric for reducing the effect of self-citations. Telkomnika (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), 17(6), 3044-3049. doi:10.12928/TELKOMNIKA.v17i6.12292

Annotation

Elsevier B.V. launched a scholarly metric called CiteScore (CS) on December 8, 2016. Up till then, the journal impact factor (JIF) owned by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) was the only trusted metric for journal evaluation. As noted by Teixeira da Silva & Memon (2017), CS offers some observed advantages over JIF. The potentials of CiteScore as a viable metric are still emerging. The paper briefly introduces a variant of the CiteScore that can be used in quantifying the impact of researchers and their institutions. The ultimate aim is to reduce the numerical effect of self-citations (SC) in academic publishing. The reduction is designed to discourage SC but not diminishing it. The reasons for the adopted methodology are discussed extensively. The proposed modified CiteScore metric is simple, transparent and constructed to ensure integrity in academic publication. The result showed that the proposed modified CiteScore is a better option than the traditional CiteScore and hence, can be applied in impact determination, the ranking of authors and their institutions, and evaluation of scientists for a grant award. The approach used in this paper is entirely new in two ways; first, a metric similar to journal ranking is proposed for ranking authors and their institutions and secondly, disproportionate scores are awarded to different sources of citations to reduce perceived dishonesty in academic publications. In conclusion, this research is one of very few to report the effect of SC on CiteScore. Hitherto, the effect of SC has always been on the journal impact factor (IF).

Keywords

CiteScore, Clarivate analytics, Impact factor, Scopus, Self-citation

The name of the journal

Telkomnika (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073689970&doi=10.12928%2fTELKOMNIKA.v17i6.12292&partnerID=40&md5=7e7b0b7a9ad180d1562b900754c2a001

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https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=215230&p_lang=2

Full metadata record

Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Akhmetshin Elvir Munirovich	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2019-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2019	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Okagbue, H. I., Bishop, S. A., Oguntunde, P. E., Adamu, P. I., Opanuga, A. A., & Akhmetshin, E. M. (2019). Modified CiteScore metric for reducing the effect of self-citations. Telkomnika (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), 17(6), 3044-3049. doi:10.12928/TELKOMNIKA.v17i6.12292	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=215230&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Telkomnika (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Elsevier B.V. launched a scholarly metric called CiteScore (CS) on December 8, 2016. Up till then, the journal impact factor (JIF) owned by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) was the only trusted metric for journal evaluation. As noted by Teixeira da Silva & Memon (2017), CS offers some observed advantages over JIF. The potentials of CiteScore as a viable metric are still emerging. The paper briefly introduces a variant of the CiteScore that can be used in quantifying the impact of researchers and their institutions. The ultimate aim is to reduce the numerical effect of self-citations (SC) in academic publishing. The reduction is designed to discourage SC but not diminishing it. The reasons for the adopted methodology are discussed extensively. The proposed modified CiteScore metric is simple, transparent and constructed to ensure integrity in academic publication. The result showed that the proposed modified CiteScore is a better option than the traditional CiteScore and hence, can be applied in impact determination, the ranking of authors and their institutions, and evaluation of scientists for a grant award. The approach used in this paper is entirely new in two ways; first, a metric similar to journal ranking is proposed for ranking authors and their institutions and secondly, disproportionate scores are awarded to different sources of citations to reduce perceived dishonesty in academic publications. In conclusion, this research is one of very few to report the effect of SC on CiteScore. Hitherto, the effect of SC has always been on the journal impact factor (IF).	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject	CiteScore	ru_RU
dc.subject	Clarivate analytics	ru_RU
dc.subject	Impact factor	ru_RU
dc.subject	Scopus	ru_RU
dc.subject	Self-citation	ru_RU
dc.title	Modified CiteScore metric for reducing the effect of self-citations	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in international journals and collections	ru_RU