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We investigate the influence of the preferential attachment rule (PAR) in this process by analyzing individual citation events from the DBLP dataset and two Scopus\u2010based datasets, enabling us to estimate the probability of citations being assigned preferentially. Our findings reveal that, for the aggregated dataset, PAR dominates the citation distribution process, with approximately 70% of citations adhering to this mechanism. However, analysis at the individual level shows significant variability, with some authors experiencing a greater prevalence of preferential citations, particularly in the context of external citations. In contrast, self\u2010citations exhibit notably different behavior, with only 20% following PAR. We also demonstrate that the prominence of PAR increases with an author's citability (average citations per paper), suggesting that more citable authors are preferentially cited, while less\u2010cited authors experience more random citation patterns. 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