Self citation expert: Ji-Huan He and Nelson Tansu
What is the common thing between Ji-Huan He and Nelson Tansu.
Professor Ji-Huan He is from Donghua University in Shanghai, China. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation. Ji-Huan He and Nelson Tansu both share the same obsession of having high citation, and to pursue this obsession, both are heavy self citation. Both Tansu and He like to cite themselves heavily.
The International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (IJNSNS), founded in 2000 by Ji Huan-He. For the past few years, IJNSNS has had the highest impact factor in the category “Mathematics, Applied.”
However, Ji-Huan He, the founder and editor-in-chief of IJNSNS, is also an editor of another journal Chaos Solitons and Fractals (CSF), and El Naschie is one of the two co-editors of CSF. Both He and El Naschie publish copiously, not only in their own journals but also in each other’s, and they cite each other frequently. The top-citing author to IJNSNS in 2008 was the journal’s own editor-in-chief, Ji-Huan He, who cited the journal 243 times.
The three editors of the journal account for 29% of the citations counted toward the impact factor. The fraud and self citation fabrication is reported in a journal http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0278
The same with Nelson Tansu, who like to cite himself, up to 82% self citation.
Ji-Huan He and Nelson Tansu are brothers in arms, like to be famous, self centred and self obsessed. Both publish many duplicate papers involving self plagiarims and both like to self citation.
As scientists, they should place great emphasis on scientific integrity, in what they write and what they review. Tansu is chasing high publication count, citation number, impact factor,and h index.
People should know how easily these can be manipulated. We need to look at the papers themselves, the nature of the citations, and the quality of the journals. Tansu and Ji Huan he should be ashame of themselves, tarnishing the value of science because they are self centred and obsessed on citation volume.
