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Editorial
. 2010 Oct;468(10):2803-7.
doi: 10.1007/s11999-010-1480-8. Epub 2010 Jul 28.

Self-citation in publishing

Andreas F Mavrogenis, Pietro Ruggieri, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos
Editorial

Self-citation in publishing

Andreas F Mavrogenis et al. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2010 Oct.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
The IF of a journal equals the ratio of the number of citations in the current year to articles published in the journal in the 2 preceding years divided by the number of citable items published in these 2 years.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
The Eigenfactor™ score measures the number of times articles from a journal published during the past 5 years have been cited in the JCR year by direct citation counts from a matrix that records how often each journal cites each other journal. (The formula is published with permission from Eigenfactor.org.)
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
The Article Influence™ score for each journal is a measure of the per-article citation influence of the journal during a 5-year period. The Article Influence™ score (AIi) equals to the ratio of the journal’s Eigenfactor™ score divided by the fraction of articles published by the journal. (The formula is published with permission from Eigenfactor.org.)
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