ympyräviittausketjun
Ympyräviittausketju, often shortened to ympyräviittaus, refers to a situation in citation analysis where a set of documents or entities refer to each other in a cyclical manner. This means that document A cites document B, document B cites document C, and document C, in turn, cites document A, forming a closed loop. This phenomenon is not limited to academic papers but can also occur in other citation-based systems, such as legal citations or software dependencies.
The existence of ympyräviittausketju can have several implications. In academic research, it might indicate a self-referential