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Prematurity and Uniqueness in Scientific Discovery
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Viral RNA-dependent DNA Polymerase: RNA-dependent DNA Polymerase in Virions of RNA Tumour Viruses
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Metadata
- Authors
- Stent, G. S.
- Venue
- Scientific American
- Published
- 1972-12
- Volume
- 227
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 84-93
- ISSN
- 0036-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2005933779
- Cited by
- 289
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 73.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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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.
