2017/05/31 by Claudiu Herţeliu, Claudiu Herteliu, Marcel Ausloos +3
Chemistry · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Business #Chemistry #Citation #Computer science #Impact factor #Index (typography) #Law #Library science #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Political science #Position (finance) #Psychology #Qualitative analysis #Qualitative research #Sample (material) #Set (abstract data type) #Social science #Sociology #World Wide Web #cs.DL #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/publications5020015
published as Publications 5 (2017) 15 · 23 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, 45 references, published in Publications (MDPI), 2017 (http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/5/2/15). The title of published version is slightly changed
openalex publication_date 2017/06/01 · arxiv created 2017/06/07 · arxiv updated 2017/08/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
How much is the h-index of an editor of a well-ranked journal improved due to citations which occur after his/her appointment? Scientific recognition within academia is widely measured nowadays by the number of citations or h-index. Our dataset is based on a sample of four editors from a well-ranked journal (impact factor, IF, greater than 2). The target group consists of two editors who seem to benefit by their position through an increased citation number (and subsequently h-index) within the journal. The total amount of citations for the target group is greater than 600. The control group is formed by another set of two editors from the same journal whose relations between their positions and their citation records remain neutral. The total amount of citations for the control group is more than 1200. The timespan for which the citations’ pattern has been studied is 1975–2015. Previous coercive citations for a journal’s benefit (an increase of its IF) has been indicated. To the best of our knowledge, this is a pioneering work on coercive citations for personal (editors’) benefit. Editorial teams should be aware about this type of potentially unethical behavior and act accordingly.