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Metadata
- Authors
- Broadus, R. N.
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 1987-11
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 5-6
- Pages
- 373-379
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W2069134922
- Cited by
- 1,646
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 1.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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