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The public understanding of science
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Metadata
- Authors
- Durant, J. R., Evans, G. A., & Thomas, G. P.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1989-07
- Volume
- 340
- Issue
- 6228
- Pages
- 11-14
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1973402908
- Cited by
- 727
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 20.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
