Fig 1.
Flow diagram of citation requests, reviewers requesting self-citations and accession in the final published manuscript.
Table 1.
Peer reviewer and manuscript characteristics.
Fig 2.
Comparison of individual independent and self-citations raised in peer review being incorporated in published manuscripts.
*Chi-square test.
Fig 3.
Manuscript-level comparison of citations raised during peer review being incorporated in the published manuscripts.
*Fisher’s exact test using the Freeman-Halton extension.