Self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender.

It was recently reported that men self-cite >50% more often than women across a wide variety of disciplines in the bibliographic database JSTOR. Here, we replicate this finding in a sample of 1.6 million papers from Author-ity, a version of PubMed with computationally disambiguated author names....

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Main Authors: Shubhanshu Mishra, Brent D Fegley, Jana Diesner, Vetle I Torvik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6157831?pdf=render