Reciprocity and impact in academic careers

Abstract The growing importance of citation-based bibliometric indicators in shaping the prospects of academic careers incentivizes scientists to boost the numbers of citations they receive. Whereas the exploitation of self-citations has been extensively documented, the impact of reciprocated citati...

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Main Authors: Weihua Li, Tomaso Aste, Fabio Caccioli, Giacomo Livan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:EPJ Data Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0199-3