The DOI matches its Crossref record; 15 of the 16 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
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“Aksnes (2003) shows that the lowest percentage of self-citations in publications by Norwegian authors is in clinical medicine (17%) and the highest percentage is in chemistry and astrophysics (31%).”
From Core Elements in the Process of Citing Publications: Conceptual Overview of the Literature (2018) · cites this paper as Aksnes, 2003
In the citing paper
“Costas et al. (2010) and Aksnes (2003) similarly report that the number of self-citations increases with the number of authors of the citing document.”
From Core Elements in the Process of Citing Publications: Conceptual Overview of the Literature (2018) · cites this paper as Aksnes, 2003
In the citing paper
“The results of Aksnes (2003) and Glänzel and Thijs (2004) reveal, however, that the increase in the number of self-citations might play a minor role in the overall increase in citation rates.”
From Core Elements in the Process of Citing Publications: Conceptual Overview of the Literature (2018) · cites this paper as Aksnes, 2003
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Metadata
- Authors
- Aksnes, D. W.
- Affiliations
- Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Aksnes, Dag W.
- ORCID
- Aksnes, Dag W.
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2003-02
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 235-246
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W2131409840
- Cited by
- 357
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 14.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Keywords
- self-citation, citation analysis, citation metrics, research evaluation, multi-author papers, disciplinary variation, citation counts
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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