Self citation to satisfy Self indulgence
Nelson Tansu likes to be famous, self centred. Can we have your self citation, professor.
In a normal world, scientist give reference to other people’s work, this is to honor and acknowledge other people’s work, or the idea has been put forward more clearly elsewhere by someone else. References also aimed to refer to relevant past literature and to provide suggestions for further background reading.
However some scientist, especially the youngest professor Nelson Tansu likes to use self-citation. Self-citation has additional advantages. Self-citation is used to let readers know who has written the paper, to establish to readers the reputation in a given area and to satisfy cravings to Tansu name in print. This is a form of self centeredness, a way of expressing his own ego, self indulgence, and self craving. Tansu like all of this indulgence as he proclaim to the Indonesian press that he is a genius and the youngest professor in the world.
This facebook page says it all http://www.facebook.com/pages/Self-Citation/231642590185427
“Self Indulgence and Self Obsession created Self Citation. A practice that is secretly done by academic professors that feel insecure about their position and need to have a big h index.”
The topic of Nelson Tansu and self citation is discussed in The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Reader criticize Tansu’s act of self citation:
” these suggestions may actually only work if you only publish a large number of papers at crappy venues and only cite yourself (I know plenty of researchers that do). Problem with the crappy conferences and journals is that no one reads or cites them. Double publication may actually be bad for your h-index as I doubt anyone will cite both papers that have identical content, so your splitting your votes over two papers rather than having one paper with a lot of cites. ”
Obviously citing yourself is a no brainer…
A senior member totoro commented:
“To be clear, my self-cites are only about 10% of my total citations and are relevant. I think that is a reasonable number. Not like this Nelson guy.”
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