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- 1997
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 155-174
- Citations
- 66
- Access
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Loet Leydesdorff,
Peter van den Besselaar
(1997).
Scientometrics and communication theory: Towards theoretically informed indicators.
Scientometrics
, 38
(1)
, 155-174.
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02461129
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- DOI
- 10.1007/bf02461129