Self-citations, a trend prevalent across subject disciplines at the global level; an overview

What is it about?

The present study is an attempt to determine the prevailing trend of self-citations across 27 major subject disciplines at global level. The study also examines the aspects like percentage of self-citations in each individual subject discipline and the average number of self-citations per publication across different subject disciplines. The study also investigates self-citation percentage of research articles published from the twenty leading research countries of the world and across the continents.

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Why is it important?

The study is original and first of its kind covering each individual subject discipline having global scope.