Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

Peer reviewers whose work is cited in the studies they are refereeing are significantly more likely to recommend accepting those papers than if their work is not cited, a new study has found. The ...

Researchers in chemistry are the most likely to cite their own research, citation data analysis for nearly 400,000 authors across 15 subject areas has shown. Science and technology, physics and ...