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All well if starts well? Citation infancy of recently launched chemistry journals

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The impact factor and the journal self-citation rate of 22 newly launched chemistry journals has been investigated. The dependence of these indicators on the journal's age was found to be rather characteristic to the initial period of a journal's “life cycle”.

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  1. Information Science and Scientometrics Research Unit, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 7, H-1361, Budapest, (Hungary)

    Hajnalka Maczelka & S. Zsindely

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  1. Hajnalka Maczelka
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Maczelka, H., Zsindely, S. All well if starts well? Citation infancy of recently launched chemistry journals. Scientometrics 25, 367–372 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02028092

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