Paul McDevitt
Inward looking
IT SEEMS that male scientists have one expert they like to cite more than any other: themselves. in a study in Physics and Society. And in the last two decades, male researchers have cited their own publications 70 per cent more often than females, reveal the authors.
Self-citation may sound like something your Sunday school teacher warned against, but the finding has a serious message: that the profile of women in science, already diminished by a gender gap, is further curtailed by…
