研究人员的自我引用:自恋还是一个有凝聚力和持续的研究项目的必然结果?

IF 0.2 Q4 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2014-02-08 DOI:10.4033/IEE.2014.7.1.E
S. Cooke, M. Donaldson
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加拿大安大略省渥太华卡尔顿大学生物系和环境科学研究所鱼类生态与保护生理学实验室Steven J. Cooke (steven_cooke@carleton.ca),美国伊利诺伊州厄巴纳伊利诺斯大学自然资源与环境科学系Michael R. Donaldson (michael.r.donaldson@gmail.com),研究界仍然把重点放在列举、评估、并对个别作者的研究效率进行排名,尽管这样做有明显的缺点。基本但广泛使用的引用指标,如³WRWDO FLWHV´(Adam 2002)或³+LUsch (h) LQGH[´(Hirsch 2005)需要计算给定的DXWKRU¶V作品被引用的次数。幸运的是,有各种各样的电子文献计量工具(例如,Web of Science, b谷歌Scholar, Scopus)可以为我们做这项工作。有趣的是,这些工具倾向于生成包含自引用的默认计数。自引可以定义为引文和被引论文至少有一个共同作者的情况(Asknes 2003),尽管已经提出了各种定义(Fowler and Aksnes 2007, Costas et al. 2010)。自我引用可以很容易地过滤掉,只需点击几下就可以生成FRUUHFWHG指数(例如,Schreiber 2007, Brown 2009)或那些不考虑自我引用的指数(例如,Ferrara和Romero 2013),但是有必要这样做吗?在这里,我们认为,自我引用不一定被认为是一种自恋行为,相反,它可以表明一个有凝聚力的研究计划,在这个研究计划中,作者参考他们以前的相关作品,以增强他们随后对知识的贡献。在申请科学职位、晋升、终身职位或奖励时,必须决定他们是否会报告自己的“SURGXFWLYLW\ \”,包括或不包括自我引用,还是两者都包括。而且,那些评估这些研究人员的人必须决定他们希望考虑哪些人,以及他们是否会聘用那些不能排除自我引用的人。有些人可能会觉得包括自我引用是令人憎恶的,而另一些人可能会无动于衷。从表面上看,³VHOI-FLWDWLRQ´似乎有点自恋。然而,也可以提出这样的论点,即自我引用实际上是RQH¶V在其领域的突出性和生产力的一个指标。考虑一个研究人员,他有一个专注的研究项目,年复一年地发表相关主题的论文,他的论文建立在以前工作的思想和发现的基础上。人们会期望对来自同一研究实验室的研究论文有很大的依赖。事实上,LGHDO的研究项目不应该是这样的吗?同样,如果一个人在一个高度专业化的领域工作,几乎没有其他的研究努力,自我引用将是必不可少的。在论文数量上的产出越高,自然也会导致更大的自我引用潜力。从这个意义上说,有理由认为自引本身可以作为一个研究项目有凝聚力和协调程度的指标,自引程度与研究项目的产出程度(论文数量)成正比。在建立一个研究项目时,自我引用是建立一个有凝聚力的知识库和推动科学发展的一个重要方面。例如,如果一个研究计划已经建立,无论是作者自己还是他们的合作者和共同作者,那么自我引用将是必要的,以发展当前工作是建立在先前积累的知识基础上的基本原理。同样,当通过利用现有文献来解释发现时,自我引用通常是必要的。例如,根据研究领域和研究问题的不同,现有文献可能以DXWKRU¶V自己的文献为主
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Self-citation by researchers: narcissism or an inevitable outcome of a cohesive and sustained research program?
Steven J. Cooke (steven_cooke@carleton.ca), Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Michael R. Donaldson (michael.r.donaldson@gmail.com), Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA The research community remains focused with enumerating, evaluating, and ranking the research productivity of individual authors despite the apparent shortcomings of doing so. Basic yet widely used citation metrics such as ³WRWDO FLWHV´ (Adam 2002) or ³+LUsch (h) LQGH[´ (Hirsch 2005) require a count of the number of times that a given DXWKRU¶V works are cited. Fortunately there are a variety of electronic bibliometric tools (e.g., Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus) that do that work for us. Interestingly, those tools tend to generate default counts that can include self-citations. Self-citations can be defined as occurrences in which the citing and cited papers share at least one author in common (Asknes 2003), although various definitions have been proposed (Fowler and Aksnes 2007, Costas et al. 2010). Self-citations can be easily filtered out with a few clicks to generate ³FRUUHFWHG´ indices (e.g., Schreiber 2007, Brown 2009) or those that discount self-cites (e.g., Ferrara and Romero 2013), but is it necessary to do so? Here, we argue that self-citations need not necessarily be considered a form of narcissistic behavior, and instead could be indicative of a cohesive research program, in which authors refer to their prev-ious relevant works in order to enhance their subsequent contributions to knowledge. When applying for scientific positions, promotions, tenure, or awards, one must decide whether they will report their ³SURGXFWLYLW\´ with or without self-citations, or include both. And, those assessing such researchers must decide which they wish to consider and whether they will ³SHQDOL]H´ someone that fails to exclude self-citations. Some individuals may feel that it is abhorrent to include self-citations while others may be indifferent. On the surface, ³VHOI-FLWDWLRQ´ may appear to border on narcissism. However, the argument could also be made that self-citation is in fact an indicator of RQH¶V promin-ence and productivity in their field. Consider a research-er with a focused research program publishing year after year on related topics, with papers building upon ideas and discoveries codified in previous work. One would expect significant reliance on research papers from the same research lab. Indeed, is that not what an ³LGHDO´ research program should look like? Similarly, if one is working in a highly specialized field where there is simply little other research effort, self-citation would be essential. The more productive one is in terms of output in quantity of papers would also inherently lead to greater potential for self-citations. In this sense, it is reasonable to think that self-citation itself could be used as an indicator of the extent to which one has a cohesive and coordinated research program, with the extent of self-citation scaling with extent of output (in number of papers) from a research program. When building a research program, self-citations can be an important aspect of developing a cohesive knowledge base and moving science forward. For example, if a research program has already been estab-lished, either by the author themselves or their col-laborators and co-authors, it follows that self-citations would be necessary to develop the rationale that the current work is building on previously accumulated knowledge. Likewise, when interpreting findings by drawing on existing literature, self-citations are often necessary. For example, depending on the field of study and research questions being asked, the existing literature may be predominated by the DXWKRU¶V own
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