Scientists who get too many references to their own work inserted in others’ papers — whether by prior arrangement or by asking for extra references during peer review — might leave telltale ...

Proportion of each of the 8 signal indicators in 59 authors with ultra-precocious citation impact versus in all top-cited authors. Data are from Scopus and raw data ...

Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva thought that he had spotted an easy way to raise the profiles of Brazilian journals. From 2009, he and several other editors published articles containing hundreds of references ...

Judges’ citations tell a lot about their dispositions. We can glean relationships between cases, judges’ perspectives on these cases and judges’ relationships with other judges based on case citations ...

Numerous studies have found that men are more likely to think highly of themselves and their talents than are women when they evaluate themselves. A new study finds that these patterns extend to ...

Eric A. Fong’s manuscript had been conditionally accepted. The editor said Fong needed to ensure it conformed with the journal’s style and to shorten it to meet the word limit. That was easy enough.