Journal article
Author self-citation in the diabetes literature
Abstract
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 of diabetes mellitus to represent the general medical literature.
METHODS: We identified every article about diabetes mellitus in 170 hand-searched clinical journals published in 2000. For every article, we recorded the bibliographic citation and …
Authors
Gami AS; Montori VM; Wilczynski NL; Haynes RB
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 170, No. 13, pp. 1925–1927
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
June 22, 2004
DOI
10.1503/cmaj.1031879
ISSN
0820-3946