The Self-Citation Medal Ceremony

The Self-Citation Medal Ceremony
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The academic equivalent of giving yourself a high five. Nothing says "I'm the authority on this subject" like professors smugly awarding themselves a medal for their own research. The citation counts technically go up, and nobody can question your interpretation of your own data. It's academic inception – publishing papers just to cite them in lectures later. The scientific method at its most... circular.

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