Self-citation and Self-reference: Credibility and Promotion in Academic Publication

By Ken Hyland. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2003

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Men Set Their Own Cites High: Gender and Self-citation across Fields and over Time (2016, background): “important contributor to citation counts and academic visibility. Thus, gender discrepancies in self-citation rates have notable consequences for academic careers. The motives for self-citation vary (Hyland 2003; Safer and Tang 2009; Tang and Safer 2008), but self-citation is one of the few direct w”
A Genre Analysis of English and Iranian Research Articles Abstracts in Applied Linguistics and Mathematics (2014, background): “According to Hyland (2003) the moves or steps with sixty and more percent rates can be considered as obligatory and less than sixty percent is called optional which used as a role for providing the preceding pattern.”
Impact of license choice on Open Source Software development activity (2009, background): “In general, the issue of self-citations has been examined in many studies (e.g., Hellsten, Lambiotte, & Scharnhorst, 2007; van Raan, 2008), and the usual practice is to ignore them when performing scientometric evaluations since in many cases they may account for a significant part of a scientist’s ”
Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century - A review (2008, background): “An interesting linguistic analysis of author self-citation and self-mention in different disciplines was published by Hyland (2001, 2003).”