I discuss a neglected solution to the skeptical problem introduced by Lewis Carroll’s “What Tortoise Said Achilles” (1895) in terms of self-citational inferential license. then consider some responses this solution. The most significant response on behalf skeptic utilizes familiar distinction between two ways accepting rule: as action-guiding and mere truth. argue that is ultimately unsatisfact...

since reference practices influence journal impact factor (jif), author self- citation (asc), number of times an author cites herself / himself, and journal self-citation (jsc), number of times the journal cites itself, as a portion of total citations should be considered in citation analysis. isi provides quantitative indicators for publications in english language. therefore, those scientific...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...