Current self-citation rates

[Marie McVeigh]

Here is an old (but more recent than Seglen) reference that will give you
some sense of the distribution of self-citation rates in the Science
edition of JCR:  http://wokinfo.com/essays/journal-self-citation-jcr/

As a point of interest and comparison with Loet's number, I would suggest
also looking at the average journal-level self-citation rate.  With the
following in mind: a journal with a very low overall citation count can
have a high % of journal self-citations without this representing any
problematic pattern.   That's why multiple criteria other than journal
self-citation rate are used to consider suppression from the JCR (see:
http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/jcr-suppression.pdf)

Marie E McVeigh
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