Yaminfirooz Mousa, Tirgar Aram
Department of General Education, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Science, Babol, Iran.
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Acta Inform Med. 2019 Dec;27(4):259-262. doi: 10.5455/aim.2019.27.259-262.
Self-citation is a debate in citation analysis and evaluating research performance.
This study aimed to investigate the self-citation rate of Iranian scholars in comparison with scholars of other countries in the World.
The scientific output of 238 countries in the time span of 1996-2017(two recent decades) was studied from perspective of some bibliometric indicators, using "country ranking" section in SJR database for data collection.
Regarding self-citation rate, Iran ranked third in the world, second in Asia and first in the Middle East. However, Iran ranked 22 in the World, second in Asia and Middle East in scientific production. Iran has self-citation rate of 36.57%, which is higher than World standard level.
It is needed that Iranian researchers consider their research quality as well as making the appropriate context for more visibility of their works by receiving more citations from other researchers and taking other scientific visibility modes into account. Science policy-makers in Iran should consider some approaches to decreasing the self-citation rate in Iranian publications.
自引是引文分析和评估研究绩效中的一个争议点。
本研究旨在调查伊朗学者与世界其他国家学者相比的自引率。
从一些文献计量指标的角度，利用SJR数据库中的“国家排名”部分收集数据，研究了1996 - 2017年（最近二十年）238个国家的科研产出。
在自引率方面，伊朗在世界排名第三，在亚洲排名第二，在中东排名第一。然而，在科研产出方面，伊朗在世界排名第22，在亚洲和中东排名第二。伊朗的自引率为36.57%，高于世界标准水平。
伊朗研究人员需要在提高研究质量的同时，通过获得其他研究人员更多的引用以及采用其他科学可见性模式，为其作品获得更高的知名度创造适当的环境。伊朗的科学政策制定者应考虑采取一些方法来降低伊朗出版物中的自引率。
