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How much self-promotion is enough?

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27 Nov 2017
Taken from the November 2017 issue of Physics World

Promoting your career is the name of the game for most researchers, but is excessively citing your own papers a good or bad thing? Dalmeet Singh Chawla investigates

Tooting your horn can be good at times. For academics, it comes in the form of citing your own prior

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London, www.dalmeets.com
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