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- Callaway, E.
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- Callaway, Ewen
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- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
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- impact factor, journal impact factor, scholarly publishing, research evaluation, scientific journals, journal editors, bibliometric analysis
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