A global exploratory comparison of country self-citations 1996-2019

• Alberto Baccini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Baccini, Eugenio Petrovich

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alberto.baccini@unisi.it

  Affiliation Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-482X

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• Eugenio Petrovich

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Baccini, Eugenio Petrovich

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-0471

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