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Is the point meant to be that women don't build off of their previous work as much as men? lol
This "science meme" needs more science and less meme, imo, lol
Not necessarily. Self citation is different than building on your previous work. You might just seek to use other citations for the relevent concepts
Edit: the 2015 paper this is referencing lists many differing potential reasons for it. Ranging from worrying more about negative feedback for self citation to being more likely to being more critical of their own work
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023117738903
Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of "as we previously reported," but maybe that's just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he's like, "idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact."