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Author-Name: Chia-Lin Chang
Author-Email: changchialin@nchu.edu.tw
Author-Person: pch286 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Applied Economics, Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Author-Name: Michael McAleer
Author-Person: pmc90 
Author-Workplace-Name: Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute,
	The Netherlands, Department of Quantitative Economics, Complutense University of Madrid, and Institute of
	Economic Research, Kyoto University. 
Author-Name: Les Oxley
Author-Email: lesoxley@gmail.com
Author-Person: pox4
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand 
Title: Coercive Journal Self Citations, Impact Factor, Journal Influence and Article Influence 
Abstract: This paper examines the issue of coercive journal self citations and the practical usefulness of 
	two recent journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which may be 
	interpreted as measuring “Journal Influence”, and the Article Influence score, using the 
	Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (hereafter ISI) data for 2009 for the 200 most highly 
	cited journals in each of the Sciences and Social Sciences. The paper also compares the two 
	new bibliometric measures with two existing ISI metrics, namely Total Citations and the 5-
	year Impact Factor (5YIF) (including journal self citations) of a journal. It is shown that the 
	Sciences and Social Sciences are different in terms of the strength of the relationship of 
	journal performance metrics, although the actual relationships are very similar. Moreover, the 
	journal influence and article influence journal performance metrics are shown to be closely 
	related empirically to the two existing ISI metrics, and hence add little in practical usefulness 
	to what is already known, except for eliminating the pressure arising from coercive journal 
	self citations. These empirical results are compared with existing results in the bibliometrics 
	literature.
Classification-JEL: A12.
Keywords: Journal performance metrics, Coercive journal self citations, Research assessment measures, Total citations, 
	5-year impact factor (5YIF), Eigenfactor, Journal influence, Article influence. 
Length: 18 pages 
Creation-Date: 2013-03
Number: 2013-10 
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