Effect of publication month on citation impact

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Highlights：

• Large scale analysis of the incidence of a publication month bias.

• Month bias substantively distorts citation impact indicators.

• The bias is shown to influence scores in quantitative science evaluation scenarios.

• A method to eliminate month bias is introduced and evaluated.

摘要

•Large scale analysis of the incidence of a publication month bias.•Month bias substantively distorts citation impact indicators.•The bias is shown to influence scores in quantitative science evaluation scenarios.•A method to eliminate month bias is introduced and evaluated.

论文关键词：Citation impact,Publication date,Citation analysis,Bias,Bibliometric indicators,Self-citations,Control variable,Systematic error,Validity

论文评审过程：Received 5 November 2017, Revised 25 January 2018, Accepted 26 January 2018, Available online 22 February 2018, Version of Record 22 February 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.01.012