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On 2011-12-18 11:07, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:MurphJen@aol.com">MurphJen@aol.com</a> wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:1705e.1860299f.3c1f1552@aol.com" type="cite"><font
id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">This
leads to an issue I believe we discussed a year or two ago,
self-citation. As I remember from that discussion we agreed
that excessive self citation is not good either.</font></blockquote>
As far as I remember, this discussion was not about self-citation,
but about some journals requiring from potential authors to refer to
papers published in the same journal. In this situation, one could
suspect that the journals' goal were to increase their impact
indexes. The discussion resulted in a special issue of CAS on the
topic of citation. Thus, I, for one, do not agree that it was waste
of time (though my opinion here is biased as I was one of the
authors in this special issue :-))<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Ilia
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