Self-Citation, Cumulative Advantage, and Gender Inequality in Science
In science, self-citation is often interpreted as an act of self-promotion that (artificially) boosts the visibility of one’s prior work in the short term, which could then inflate professional authority in the long term. Recently, in light of research on the gender gap in self-promotion, two large-...
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Society for Sociological Science
2020-05-01
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Online Access: | https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v7-7-152/ |