Volume 111, Nº 3, September 2018
DOI: http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20180160
VIEWPOINT
For a Model of Self-Citation Governance in Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Marcos Antonio Almeida-Santos
Deyse Mirelle Souza Santos
Beatriz Santana Prado
José Augusto Barreto-Filho
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Figure 1 – Incidence rate ratio (IRR) of self-citations during the period from 2000 to 2016. Note: results are presented from the year 2001 on, since the year 2000 was used as the starting point of the rolling window regression.
Keywords: Periodical Index; Periodicals as Topic; Cardiology; Citation Databases; Journal Impact Factor.