Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey

This paper investigates the trends of Impact Factors and self-citation rates of journals indexed in the JCR by two neighbouring countries Iran and Turkey for a period of five years (2000- 2005). All data extracted from the Journal Citation Reports – Science Edition (2000-2005). The study showed that...

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Main Author: Mohammad Hossein Biglu
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Language:English
Published: Üniversite ve Araştırma Kütüphanecileri Derneği 2007-10-01
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Online Access:https://bd.org.tr/index.php/bd/article/view/343
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description This paper investigates the trends of Impact Factors and self-citation rates of journals indexed in the JCR by two neighbouring countries Iran and Turkey for a period of five years (2000- 2005). All data extracted from the Journal Citation Reports – Science Edition (2000-2005). The study showed that the portion of Turkish journals entering data to the JCR data bank is two times higher than the portion of Iranian journals. From a total number of 6,088 journals in the JCR in 2005, 3 (0.05%) were published in Iran and the same number of journals published in Turkey. The 6,088 journals in the JCR produced 847,114 articles, 159 (0.02%) appeared in the Iranian journals and 352 (0.04%) in the Turkish journals. Of the 22,353,992 citations in 2005, 214 (0.001%) came from Iranian journals and 911 (0.004%) came from Turkish journals. The self-citation tendency by Iranian journals has increased dramatically throughout the period of study, it reached from 8% self-citation rate in 2000 to 18% in 2005, an increase of 2.25 times, whereas the self-citation rate by Turkish journals showed a negative trend, its self-citation rate fell from 22% in 2002 to 15% in 2005. The Impact Factors of Turkish journals showed faster growth than the Iranian journals, the mean value of Impact Factor for Turkish journals in 2000 was 0.49 under than the mean value of Impact Factor for Iranian journals, but in 2005 the mean value of Impact Factor for Turkish journals stayed 0.14 higher than the mean value of Impact Factor for Iranian journals.
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spelling doaj.art-e2752cfc68184f30aae9eb7eb84a7fdc2023-02-15T16:16:50ZengÜniversite ve Araştırma Kütüphanecileri DerneğiBilgi Dünyası2148-354X2007-10-018229730910.15612/BD.2007.343343Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and TurkeyMohammad Hossein Biglu0Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Institut für Bibliotheks- und InformationswissenschaftThis paper investigates the trends of Impact Factors and self-citation rates of journals indexed in the JCR by two neighbouring countries Iran and Turkey for a period of five years (2000- 2005). All data extracted from the Journal Citation Reports – Science Edition (2000-2005). The study showed that the portion of Turkish journals entering data to the JCR data bank is two times higher than the portion of Iranian journals. From a total number of 6,088 journals in the JCR in 2005, 3 (0.05%) were published in Iran and the same number of journals published in Turkey. The 6,088 journals in the JCR produced 847,114 articles, 159 (0.02%) appeared in the Iranian journals and 352 (0.04%) in the Turkish journals. Of the 22,353,992 citations in 2005, 214 (0.001%) came from Iranian journals and 911 (0.004%) came from Turkish journals. The self-citation tendency by Iranian journals has increased dramatically throughout the period of study, it reached from 8% self-citation rate in 2000 to 18% in 2005, an increase of 2.25 times, whereas the self-citation rate by Turkish journals showed a negative trend, its self-citation rate fell from 22% in 2002 to 15% in 2005. The Impact Factors of Turkish journals showed faster growth than the Iranian journals, the mean value of Impact Factor for Turkish journals in 2000 was 0.49 under than the mean value of Impact Factor for Iranian journals, but in 2005 the mean value of Impact Factor for Turkish journals stayed 0.14 higher than the mean value of Impact Factor for Iranian journals.https://bd.org.tr/index.php/bd/article/view/343bibliometricsimpact factorself-citationjcrjournal citationiranturkey
spellingShingle Mohammad Hossein Biglu
Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey
Bilgi Dünyası
bibliometrics
impact factor
self-citation
jcr
journal citation
iran
turkey
title Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey
title_full Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey
title_fullStr Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey
title_full_unstemmed Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey
title_short Tendency towards the Self-citation among Journals in Iran and Turkey
title_sort tendency towards the self citation among journals in iran and turkey
topic bibliometrics
impact factor
self-citation
jcr
journal citation
iran
turkey
url https://bd.org.tr/index.php/bd/article/view/343
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