Published February 10, 2025 | Version v1
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Self Citations Data and python Scripts 2024

  • 1. ROR icon Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland)

Description

2024 WoS Data and python scripts used to generate the analysis and figures used in the blog piece "MDPI Self-Citations study highlights industry alignment and integrity".

- 2024_data.csv - 2024 data downloaded from Clarivate
- top_10.py - generates the top 10 publishers based on the number of Web of Science documents and compares the average self-citation rate of these publishers.
- wilconson.py - generates the general distribution of self-citation rates (all vs mdpi only) and performs the Wilconson test to compare the two means
- analysis.py -  generates the Comparison of SCRs for MDPI journals versus those from the aggregated top 10 publishers (excluding MDPI)
- mdpi_q_v4.py - compares journal rankings with and without self-citations for MDPI journals. 

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