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Correction: In health research publications, the number of authors is strongly associated with collective self-citations but less so with citations by others

BMC Medical Research Methodology volume 23, Article number: 260 (2023) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 11 October 2023

Correction: BMC Med Res Methodol 23, 230 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02037-w

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in Table 1. The first column "Number of authors" has been updated. The correct table is given below.

Table 1 Distribution of research articles across 7 categories of numbers of authors, and means (SD) and medians (Q1-Q3) of citations obtained in 2015–20 (Total citations, citations by others, collective self-citations, self-citations as percentage of total), and percentage of uncited papers, for 88,594 articles in health-related fields published in 2015
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  1. Jaksic C, Gayet-Ageron A, Perneger T. In health research publications, the number of authors is strongly associated with collective self-citations but less so with citations by others. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2023;23:230. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02037-w.

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  1. UAM-CRC & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Health and Community Medicine, University of Geneva & University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Cyril Jaksic

  2. Present address: Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Service d’épidémiologie Clinique, Bvd de La Tour 8, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland

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  3. Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Health and Community Medicine, University of Geneva & University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Angèle Gayet-Ageron & Thomas Perneger

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Jaksic, C., Gayet-Ageron, A. & Perneger, T. Correction: In health research publications, the number of authors is strongly associated with collective self-citations but less so with citations by others. BMC Med Res Methodol 23, 260 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02084-3

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