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https://researchbrains.com/self-citation/ https://researchbrains.com Self Citation Self-citation refers to citing one’s previous publications in a new publication. Author self-citation exists when the citing and the cited papers have at least 1 author in common.  For every scientist, three main measures of self-citations were obtained: “Total self-citations”, i.e., the total number of self-citations (document level) that all the documents produced by a researcher have received. “Author self-citations ”, these are the citations that one author receives from his/her own documents. “Co-author self-citations ”, these are the citations that one author receives from his/her co-authors in the cited document. This indicator is obtained by subtracting the number of “Author self-citations” from the “Total number of self-citations” Citations increase the visibility of a paper and presumably the visibility of its author(s).The scientific community uses bibliometric data, including citation cou...