Insights into the relationship between the h-index and self-citations

✍ Scribed by Ernesto Gianoli; Marco A. Molina-Montenegro

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 52 KB
• Volume: 60
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1532-2882
• DOI: 10.1002/asi.21042

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We analyze the publication output of 119 Chilean ecologists and find strong evidence that self‐citations significantly affect the h‐index increase. Furthermore, we show that the relationship between the increase in the h‐index and the proportion of self‐citations differs between high and low h‐index researchers. In particular, our results show that it is in the low h‐index group where self‐citations cause the greater impact.