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In Google Scholar, I can view the number of citations of each article, but this includes self-citations. Is there a way to view the number of non-self citations?

In this tweet from 2019, the author suggests a way to calculate this number for a specific article. But is there a way to do this automatically for all my articles?

Erel Segal-Halevi
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  • https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/55202/should-self-citations-be-excluded-when-calculating-the-h-index – Anonymous Physicist Dec 15 '20 at 09:45
  • On why you might not want to do this: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1020/what-is-a-fair-metric-for-assessing-the-citation-impact-of-journals-across-disci https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41740/h-index-any-quantitative-or-other-measures-on-how-well-h-index-actually-measu – Anonymous Physicist Dec 15 '20 at 09:47
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    @AnonymousPhysicist The promotion committee in my university asks me to report the citation counts of my articles, both with and without self-citations. This is not the only measure by which they decide on promotion - it is just one of many tools. In any case, I have to report this number. – Erel Segal-Halevi Dec 15 '20 at 12:32

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The Scopus tool ("h-graph") allows one to turn self-citations on or off for a given scholar if you have access (my institution provides access to the full tool after linking them with Elsevier).

https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri

Note that the total citation count will differ from Google Scholar, even if the profiles are aligned as to which publications count.

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