« A global exploratory comparison of country self-citations 1996-2019 » on PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294669

From the abstract: « Our analysis confirms that when bibliometric indicators are integrated into systems of incentives, they are capable of affecting rapidly and visibly the citation behavior of entire countries. »

Spoiler: #Italy is one of the (negative) outliers.

A global exploratory comparison of country self-citations 1996-2019

Self-citations are a key topic in evaluative bibliometrics because they can artificially inflate citation-related performance indicators. Recently, self-citations defined at the largest scale, i.e.

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