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A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority：themselves. When an academic writes a research paper，it is common practice to give citations for various facts and assertions. Universities often factor in citation counts when making decisions about hiring，tenure and pay.
As it turns out，academics have a handy tool at their disposal for juicing their citation counts：They cite themselves. There's nothing inherently shady about this practice. If you're an expert in a relatively obscure field like ant taxonomy，you're probably going to need to cite your previous work because few people are doing similar work. So Molly King and her colleagues at Stanford University，the University of Washington and New York University set out to find how often this so-called “self-citation” happens. They did so by examining a massive database of academic work：1.5 million research papers in JSTOR，a digital library of academic books and papers published between 1779 and 2011.