@article{Zhao_Cappello_2018, title={In - text citation function s of self ­ - citations: Implications for research evaluation practice}, url={https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/1039}, DOI={10.29173/cais1039}, abstractNote={<div style="left: 757.197px; top: 1077.68px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.960123);">Self-citations have long been noted as a problem in citation analysis and are often excluded from the analyses based on the notion that self-citations may be included for egoistic or self-serving reasons. The present study, however, found that self-citations are less likely to function as nonessential citations than foreign citations, suggesting that self-citations should not be discounted in citation analysis, and should in fact be given more weight than foreign citations in weighted citation analysis. This study fills a gap in research on self-citations by examining the function of individual self-citation occurrences inciting articles as compared to foreign citations.</div>}, journal={Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l’ACSI}, author={Zhao, Dangzhi and Cappello, Alicia}, year={2018}, month={Aug.} }