Notably, Hill and Provost (2003) showed that the authors of a scientific paper can be inferred with fairly high accuracy using only the papers it references.
using the vectorspace representations of the list of references (or citations) in a paper and measuring similarity between these representations and the pattern of citations of an author, they are able to infer the authors of a paper with accuracy up to 60% for the top-10% most prolific authors, and show that selfcitations are an important predictive factor.