I see. Typically, when you say "this thing" you're referring to the most recent mention of that thing. So "Here's my article. This article is fabulous." is probably not the structure you want. You really should reference the paper or the researchers you're writing about straight away, if that's what you're doing here. Even after skimming your article, that isn't clear.

It's a cautionary tale about "this" really. A tip that has helped my writing is to accumulate a list of words that I tend to over-use that add nothing and search for them in the editing process. Words like "this, really, just, again," and so on.