A Self Citation Study on Journals of Library and Information Science

Abstract

By searching the Journal Citation Reports of Social Sciences Citation Indexdatabase, this study investigates the characteristics and compares the differenceon citation data for 53 journals of library and information science. Thejournal citation data that were explored include cited times, impact factor,immediacy index, citing half-life, cited half-life, self-citing rate (synchronousself-citation) and self cited rate (diachronous self-citation). Moreover, the relationshipbetween each citation data and two self-citation rates, and the meandifference between two self-citation rates are examined by statistical tests.