A lucrative seat at the table: are editorial board members generally over-cited in their own journals?

Authors:
Tove Faber Frandsen;Jeppe Nicolaisen
Affiliations:
University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark;Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen S., Denmark
Venue:
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Flattery citations of editors, potential referees, etc. is recurrently claimed to be a common strategy among academic authors. From a sociology of science perspective, as well as from a citation analytical perspective, it is both an interesting claim and a consequential one. Consequently, the claim deserves further analyses. The present paper presents a citation analysis of the editorial board members of four Library and Information Science journals analysed at five year intervals from 1995 to 2005. The results do not unambiguously show a tendency to give flattery citations to editors and members of editorial boards in these four journals. Furthermore, any potential effect is found to be irrelevant as the difference in citations is negligible.