Study shows male academics cite themselves more

A recent 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. It is not enough, for instance, to simply assert that “the global rise of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole is an evolutionary epic with many subplots.”
You need to cite biologist Corrie S. Moreau’s 2008 paper on “Unraveling the evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole” to make that argument. More...