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Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wilken, P. H., Elkana, Y., Lederberg, J., Merton, R. K., Thackray, A., & Zuckerman, H.
- Venue
- Social Forces
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1979-06
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1419
- ISSN
- 0037-7732 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2330114716
- Cited by
- 280
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Wilken, P. H., Elkana, Y., Lederberg, J., Merton, R. K., Thackray, A., & Zuckerman, H. (1979). Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators. Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.2307/2577293
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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.
