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

PloS one, 2018-09, Vol.13 (9), p.e0195773-e0195773 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender
Author: Mishra, Shubhanshu ; Fegley, Brent D ; Diesner, Jana ; Torvik, Vetle I
Schiller, Niels O.
Subjects: Analysis ; Bibliometrics ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Citation analysis ; Datasets ; Ethnicity ; Gender ; Informatics ; Information science ; Language ; Mathematical models ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Names ; Online databases ; People and Places ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Scientometrics ; Self citation ; Social Sciences ; Specialization ; Statistical analysis ; Statistical models ; Time lag
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2018-09, Vol.13 (9), p.e0195773-e0195773
Description: 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. More importantly, we show that the gender effect largely disappears when accounting for prior publication count in a multidimensional statistical model. Gender has the weakest effect on the probability of self-citation among an extensive set of features tested, including byline position, affiliation, ethnicity, collaboration size, time lag, subject-matter novelty, reference/citation counts, publication type, language, and venue. We find that self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender, who cite their novel journal publications early and in similar venues, and more often cross citation-barriers such as language and indexing. As a result, papers by authors with short, disrupted, or diverse careers miss out on the initial boost in visibility gained from self-citations. Our data further suggest that this disproportionately affects women because of attrition and not because of disciplinary under-specialization.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195773
PMID: 30256792
Source: Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals Open Access
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