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01-10-2010 | Editorial

Editorial: Self-citation in Publishing

Authors: Andreas F. Mavrogenis, MD, Pietro Ruggieri, MD, PhD, Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos, MD, DSc

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 10/2010

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A scientific journal first appeared in 1665; citation of manuscripts began in 1752 [6, 34]. In 1955, the impact factor (IF) was proposed by Eugene Garfield as a simple method to calculate the relative frequencies of citations between journals (Fig. 1) [21]. Subsequently, the IF was used to select journals for the Science Citation Index (SCI), a commercial property of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI; Philadelphia, PA, USA) and founded by Garfield in 1961 [21]. (ISI subsequently was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992, a company that then subsequently became Thomson Reuters.) Beginning in 1975, the IF was incorporated into the newly developed annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). …

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Title: Editorial: Self-citation in Publishing
Authors: Andreas F. Mavrogenis, MD
Pietro Ruggieri, MD, PhD
Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos, MD, DSc
Publication date: 01-10-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 10/2010
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-010-1480-8

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