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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by duskwuff on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:58PM (#20752063)
If it means that some academics are choosing to cite their own papers rather than keeping up to date on the literature of their field, there's likely to be some potential insights missed.
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by lonelappde on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:17PM (#20752261)
There's no reason to assume that adding a self cite affects how much they read others.
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by usrusr on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:32PM (#20758838)
Not self-citing in incremental work would be like a software team erasing commit history at the beginning of each sprint, claiming that it's all new code. The post-metric amount of self citing might be less misleading than what they did before.
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