Academic writing in scientific articles: self-citation in different disciplinary areas
This article analyzes the presence of self-citation in ten most cited scientific articles from two areas of knowledge - General Medicine and Linguistics - which were published by Brazilian authors in the period from 2015 to 2019. The focus is on the functions and meanings of self-citation in writing...
| Autores: | , , |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Política e gestão educacional |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/14160 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/rpge/article/view/14160 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Autocitação Letramentos acadêmicos Escrita acadêmica Artigos científicos Self-citation Academic literacies Academic writing Scientific articles Autocita Alfabetizaciones académicas Escritura académica Artículos científicos |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes the presence of self-citation in ten most cited scientific articles from two areas of knowledge - General Medicine and Linguistics - which were published by Brazilian authors in the period from 2015 to 2019. The focus is on the functions and meanings of self-citation in writing and problematizing the insertion of researchers in academic literacy practices. The data indicate that self-citation, as well as the citation of others, is a recurrent resource in the production of experienced researchers, with the objective of valuing continuous work within the same research group and promoting a character of reliability to the reader. |
|---|