Self-citation policies and journal self-citation rate among Critical Care Medicine journals

Abstract Background Inappropriate authors’ self-citation (A-SC) is a growing mal-practice possibly boosted by the raising importance given to author’s metrics. Similarly, also excessive journals’ self-citation (J-SC) practice may factitiously influence journal’s metrics (impact factor, IF). Evaluati...

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Main Authors: Filippo Sanfilippo, Stefano Tigano, Alberto Morgana, Paolo Murabito, Marinella Astuto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Intensive Care
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40560-021-00530-2