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- 1998
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- article
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 131-134
- Citations
- 1504
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S. Redner
(1998).
How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution.
The European Physical Journal B
, 4
(2)
, 131-134.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050359
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- DOI
- 10.1007/s100510050359