This is a modified version of a blog post by a group headed by my close friend and colleague Dr. Patrick McKnight (who co-leads my own lab). The Measurement, Research Methodology, Evaluation and ...

Background: Author self-citation is the practice of citing one's previous publications in a new publication. Its extent is unknown. We studied author self-citation, choosing the major clinical field ...

Finding Citations at ESF/SU: The first three search tools are interdisciplinary SUMMIT databases. Go to the databases main menu under “research tools” to find the databases alphabetized by name.

The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular field, a pool of peer-reviewed sources built over years of research and study.

In this issue Gami and colleagues1 report on their investigation of author self-citation (the practice of citing one's previous publications in a new publication) as a possible source of bias in ...