Two open access publishers accused of excessive self-citation

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Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock Two major academic publishers of open access research – that is, free to read outside a paywall – have been accused of excessively citing articles previously published in their own journals. A study published in May before peer review on the preprint server SocArXiv suggests that high self-citation rates may have increased … Read more