Self-Citation Rate

Author and journal self-citation shares.

Overview

Estimates how much authors and journals cite themselves: the share of an author’s (or journal’s) citations that come from their own later work. High self-citation can inflate impact metrics, so this is a useful integrity check. Requires references.

Inputs

Data (Table) — data with references.

Outputs

Author Self-Citation (Table) — per-author self-citation share.
Journal Self-Citation (Table) — per-journal self-citation share.

Controls

Min citations given (author/journal) — ignore authors/journals below this citation volume (rates are noisy for tiny counts).

Actions: Compute.