An Examination of Oms Congresses in Terms of Self-Citation

In this study that can be qualifies as a bibliometrics one, 80 articles, published in the special issues (2014, 2015 and 2017) of National Office Management and Secretarial (OMS) Congress in the Electronic Vocational School Journal, were investigated from the respect of the self-citation. The articles were handled in two sections as the synchronously self-citation and diachronously self-citation. The review related to diachronously self-citation was carried on via Google Scholar (on the 01.08.2018). The articles, beside the author self-citation, were examined from the respect of the congress self-citation. In the studies about the self-citation, it is seen that there are different types of the self-citation as author self-citation, journal self-citation, institution self-citation and country self-citation. However, the concept of the congress self-citation was used for the first time here and it adds a genuine value to the study. The congress self-citation is a kind of self-citation produced new publications within the congress by adopting publications produced for the congress. The rates of the author self-citation and the congress self-citation were found, in turn, 1,26% and 4,61% in the first section. From the respect of the congress self-citation, the most of the citations were from the proceeding books. In the second section, it was found that the rate of the author self-citation was 8,45% (91,55% other that the author) and that of congress self-citation was 12,68% (87,32 out of the congress).The rates found are acceptable levels. According to the results of the research, it was determined that the congress after the publications produced for the OMS congresses also benefited. On the other hand, it was determined that these publications received citation (from out of author and congresses). It has been reached that the OMS congress has contributed to the academic world and that this contribution is motivating in terms of maintaining the OMS congresses