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Owing to some discussions about manipulating impact factor by requesting authors to increase their citations to the publication journal, we theoretically establish a mathematical expression of a relation between the journal self-citation rate and its impact factor by the single-factor method in this paper. Based on self-citation data of some journals in JCR and the observed relation between journal impact factor and the self-cited rate, we analyze the possibility that journal editors manipulate impact factors of their journals by raising the self-cited rate. Finally, we make some suggestions for supervising this crude way of active manipulating the impact factor.
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Yu, G., Wang, L. The self-cited rate of scientific journals and the manipulation of their impact factors. Scientometrics 73, 321–330 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1779-8
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