Incorrect Data on Signals

Recently, we came across an issue that the self-citation number of the article [1] is incorrect on Singals, a tool for evaluating academic articles.

Signals shows that article [1] has 13 self-citations (34% of the total references on the article). However, article [1] has 17 references (38% of the total references) to Stephen G. Compton, one of the authors.

The reason(s) caused this issue is not known yet. The 5GH team is communicating with the Signals team about this matter.



Reference

[1] 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103918






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-WuGH-2025.000008

Publication Date: 2025.01.08

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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