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Figure 1: Plot of h/√C versus √C for a sample of researchers from physics and complex systems, extracted from the Web of Science database.
Figure 2: Plot of o versus h for the same sample of scientists as in Fig. 1.

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Dorogovtsev, S., Mendes, J. Ranking scientists. Nature Phys 11, 882–883 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3533

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