Inflation of impact factors by journal self-citation in cardiovascular science.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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5. Relationship between an editor in chief's commentary publications and the impact factor of cardiovascular medicine journals.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2021
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6. The Bibliometric Literature on Scopus and WoS: The Medicine and Environmental Sciences Categories as Case of Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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7. Higher Impact Factor of Neuroimaging Journals Is Associated With Larger Number of Articles Published and Smaller Percentage of Uncited Articles.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018
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8. From Excessive Journal Self-Cites to Citation Stacking: Analysis of Journal Self-Citation Kinetics in Search for Journals, Which Boost Their Scientometric Indicators.PloS one · 2016
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9. Impact factor 2013 of the Netherlands Heart Journal surpasses 2.0.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2014
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10. Science in transition: open access to society?Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2014
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11. Impact factor 2012 for cardiovascular journals: true impact?Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2013
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12. The impact factor of the Netherlands Heart Journal in 2013.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2013
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Abstract

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