Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2015 - Revised version: January 2015
The premise underlying the use of citations data is that higher quality journals generally have a higher number of … citations. The impact of citations can be distorted in a number of ways. Journals can, and do, inflate the number of citations … journals agreeing to cite each other, that is, by exchanging citations. This may be less coercive than self citations, but is …