In this article, we discuss the outcomes of an experiment where we analysed whether and to what extent the introduction, in 2012, of the new research assessment exercise in Italy (a.k.a. Italian Scientific Habilitation) affected self-citation behaviours in the Italian research community. The Italian Scientific Habilitation attests to the scientific maturity of researchers and in Italy, as in many other countries, is a requirement for accessing to a professorship. To this end, we obtained from ScienceDirect 35,673 articles published from 1957 and 2016 by the participants to the 2012 Italian Scientific Habilitation, that resulted in the extraction of 1,379,050 citations retrieved through Semantic Publishing technologies. Our analysis showed an overall increment in author self-citations (i.e. where the citing article and the cited article share at least one author) in several of the 24 academic disciplines considered. However, we depicted a stronger causal relation between such increment and the rules introduced by the 2012 Italian Scientific Habilitation in 10 out of 24 disciplines analysed.

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自引的实践：纵向研究

在本文中，我们讨论了一项实验的结果，我们分析了 2012 年在意大利引入的新研究评估活动（又名意大利科学适应）是否以及在多大程度上影响了意大利研究界的自引行为。意大利科学资格证明了研究人员的科学成熟度，在意大利，与许多其他国家一样，是获得教授职位的必要条件。为此，我们从 ScienceDirect 中获取了 1957 年和 2016 年由 2012 年意大利科学培训参与者发表的 35,673 篇文章，从而提取了通过语义出版技术检索的 1,379,050 篇引文。我们的分析显示作者自引的总体增加（即 其中施引文章和被引文章在考虑的 24 个学科中的几个学科中至少有一位作者）。然而，我们在所分析的 24 个学科中的 10 个中描绘了这种增量与 2012 年意大利科学能力培训引入的规则之间更强的因果关系。