Correlation Between Self-Citation and Immediacy Index of Iranian Medical Scientific Journals Indexed in Scopus Citation Index Between 2005 and 2009

Background and Aim: Self-citation, as one of the limitations of citation analysis, unusually affects the ranking of journals. This study aims to evaluate the degree of relationship between self-citation and immediacy index correlation of Iranian medical journals indexed in Scopus Citation Index betw...

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Main Authors: Masoud Mohammadi, Alireza Noruzi, Hiwa Abdekhoda
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012-03-01
Series:پیاورد سلامت
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Online Access:http://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/20414.pdf&manuscript_id=20414