Journal self-citation XII: The ethics of forced journal citations

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-110

  Crews, Janna M ^a   McLeod, Alexander ^a   Simkin, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic publishing; Citation analysis; Codes of conduct; Ethics; Forced citations; Journal review process

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

ACADEMIC PUBLISHING; CITATION ANALYSIS; CODES OF CONDUCT; ETHICS; FORCED CITATIONS; REVIEW PROCESS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 73149083037     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02512     Document Type: Article

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