ABS: Fassoulaki, Self-citations in six anaesthesia journals and their significance in determining the impact factor

[Gretchen Whitney]

PT J
AU Fassoulaki, A
   Paraskeva, A
   Papilas, K
   Karabinis, G

RP Fassoulaki A
   St Savas Hosp, Dept Anaesthesia, 171 Alexandrias Ave, Athens 11522,
Greece.

TI Self-citations in six anaesthesia journals and their
   significance in determining the impact factor
SO BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
LA English
NR 5
SN 0007-0912
PU PROF SCI PUBL
C1 St Savas Hosp, Dept Anaesthesia, 171 Alexandrias Ave, Athens
   11522, Greece.
   St Savas Hosp, Dept Anaesthesia, Athens 11522, Greece.
DE anaesthesia; journals; publications; impact factor;
   publications; anaesthesia
ID ANESTHESIA-JOURNALS
AB Self-citation of a journal may affect its impact factor. We
investigated self-citations in the 1995 and 1996 issues of six
   anaesthesia journals by calculating the self-citing and self-
   cited rates for each journal. Self-citing rate relates a
   journal's self-citations to its total number of references. We
   defined self-cited rate as the ratio of a journal's self-
   citations to the number of times it is cited by the six
   anaesthesia journals. We also correlated self-citing rates with
   the impact factor of the six journals for 1997. Citations among
   the six journals differed significantly (P < 0.0001).
   Anesthesiology had the highest self-citing rate (57%).
   Anaesthesia, Anesthesia and Analgesia, British Journal of
   Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia and the European
   Journal of Anaesthesiology had self-citing rates of 28%, 28%,
   30%, 11% and 4% respectively. The self-cited rates were 31%,
   35%, 34%, 27%, 31% and 17% for Anaesthesia, Anesthesiology,
   Anesthesia and Analgesia, British Journal of Anaesthesia,
   Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia and the European Journal of
   Anaesthesiology, respectively. North America journals cited the
   North America literature. This also occurred, to a lesser
   extent, in the European anaesthesia journals. A significant
   correlation between self-citing rates and impact factors was
   found (r = 0.899, P = 0.015). A high self-citing rate of a
   journal may positively affect its impact factor.
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TC 0
BP 266
EP 269
PG 4
JI Br. J. Anaesth.
PY 2000
PD FEB
VL 84
IS 2
GA 279ZU
PI LONDON
J9 BRIT J ANAESTH
PA TAVISTOCK HOUSE EAST, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, ENGLAND WC1H
   9JR
UT ISI:000085077800027
ER

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