All well if starts well? Citation infancy of recently launched chemistry journals

Institutional self-citation rates: A three year study of universities in the United States

“…A university with a higher percentage of articles published in highly cited journals may also experience a high ISCR as these articles are more likely to be cited generally. Unique and emerging research topics may spawn specialty journals, which in their nascency may have a tendency to self-cite (H. MACZELKA & S. ZSINDELY, 1992), consequently raising the ISCR for institutions that employ researchers in these areas. Information Processing & Management,42 (6) : 1567-1577.…”

“…Despite the limited three year window, the ISCR exhibits similar temporal patterns of author and journal self-citation rates. Namely, the highest rate of self-citation occurs within the first year of an article being published [ADAMS & AL, 2004;AKSNES, 2006;MACZELKA & ZSINDELY, 1992].…”

Institutional self-citation rates: A three year study of universities in the United States

“…A university with a higher percentage of articles published in highly cited journals may also experience a high ISCR as these articles are more likely to be cited generally. Unique and emerging research topics may spawn specialty journals, which in their nascency may have a tendency to self-cite (H. MACZELKA & S. ZSINDELY, 1992), consequently raising the ISCR for institutions that employ researchers in these areas. (6) : 1567-1577.…”

“…Despite the limited three year window, the ISCR exhibits similar temporal patterns of author and journal self-citation rates. Namely, the highest rate of self-citation occurs within the first year of an article being published [ADAMS & AL, 2004;AKSNES, 2006;MACZELKA & ZSINDELY, 1992].…”

Use of the <i>Journal Citation Reports</i> for Serials Management in Research Libraries: An Investigation of the Effect of Self-Citation on Journal Rankings in Library and Information Science and Genetics

“…24 Hajnalka Maczelka and S. Zsindely, using JCR data for twenty-two new chemistry journals, discovered that the self-citation rate was high immedi ately following a journal's founding but then decreased during the first two years of the journal's existence and finally sta bilized after four or five years. 25 Nisonger reported preliminary findings concern ing the effect of self-citation on JCR rankings of LIS journals. "Journal Citation Studies," the wellknown series of journal rankings (cov ering more than fifty subjects) published by Eugene Garfield, beginning in 1972, presented self-citation rates for each jour nal but did not correct the rankings for self-citation.…”