Self-citation can inflate h-index

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N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Gubkin Str., Moscow, 119991, Russia
Lev A. Zhivotovsky
Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Lev A. Zhivotovsky
Department of Forest Science, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
Konstantin V. Krutovsky

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Zhivotovsky, L.A., Krutovsky, K.V. Self-citation can inflate h-index. Scientometrics 77, 373–375 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-1716-2

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