Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 7, No 4: December 2018

A Simple Way to Maintain the Top 50 Ranking Scientists in the SINTA from Excessive Self-Citations

Tole Sutikno (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)
Herman Yuliansyah (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)
Lina Handayani (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2018

Abstract

Top 50 authors in the Science and Technology Index (SINTA) is become popular as Indonesian top 50 ranking scientists to measure both the productivity and quality of the publications. Unfortunately, to get a high ranking in SINTA, some authors are strongly indicated that they do instant and unfair ways through citation cartels or self-citation. Based on manual investigation, excessive self-citations are conducted through publication in international conference. This paper proposed a simple way to drop abuse of excessive self-citations by categorized research articles as main publication and others as secondary publication based on Scopus database. This method is proposed to avoid perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research and publication in Indonesia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering Engineering

Description

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication, computer engineering, computer science, information technology and informatics from the global ...