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Citation decay of scientific papers: variation according to citations received

Journal of Information Science

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First published online August, 1984

Citation decay of scientific papers: variation according to citations received

Volume 9, Issue 2

https://doi.org/10.1177/016555158400900209

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S. Arunachalam and U.N. Singh , Publication and citation patterns in the literature of a high metabolism area: the case of superconductivity in 1970 , J. Information Sci. 8 (1984) 93-102.

M.B. Line , Does physics literature obsolesce? A study of variation of citation frequency with time for individual journal articles in physics, BLL Review 2 (1974) 84-91.

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