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The article by Apoor Gami and associates1 on self-citation in the diabetes literature included 1 self-citation (out of a total of 9 references), which involved 3 of the study's authors (reference 6 in the original article). Thus, self-citation constituted 11% of the article's citations, which is more than the reported mean of 18% and median of 7%.
We agree that this phenomenon is prevalent in the literature. We, too, have published articles with self-citations.2,3 In fact, this letter now has a self-citation rate of 66%!
Raheem B. Kherani Rheumatology Fellow Michelle Fung University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC