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It has recently been claimed by Baccini and coauthors that due to ANVUR'sbibliometric evaluations of individuals, departments, and universities, inItaly there has been a surge in self-citations in the last ten years, thusincreasing the "inwardness" of Italian research more than has happened abroad.We have studied the database of Ioannidis et al. published on 12 August 2019 ofthe one hundred thousand most "highly cited" scientists, including about twothousand Italians, and we found that the problem of self-citations in relationto this scientific elite is not significant in Italy, while perhaps observing asmall deviation in the low scores in the rankings. The effect indicated byBaccini et al. consequently, does not seem worrying for the scientific elite(we quantified it in 2 percent of the total of scientists of the "best" onehundred thousand), and is probably largely concentrated in the further lesscited scientists. Evaluation agencies like ANVUR should probably excludeself-citations in future evaluations, for the noise introduced by the youngresearchers. The overall state of health of the Italian research system and thepositive effect of the ANVUR assessments are demonstrated by the number ofItalian researchers in the top one hundred thousand, which has increased bycomparing the "career" databased of 22 years, with that of the "young"researchers in the "2017" database. Italy, looking at the elite researchers,not only is not the most indulgent in self-citations, but has shown the bestimprovements, proving that the introduction of ANVUR had a positive effect.Indeed, all countries apart from Italy have suffered a decline, evensubstantial (-20 percent on a national Japan scale), of the number ofresearchers present in the 2017 data sets compared to career data. Italyinstead shows a +0.2 percent on a global basis and an impressive +11.53 percenton a national basis.

The false myth of the rise in self-citations, and the impressively  positive effect of bibliometric evaluations on the increase of the impact of  Italian research