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A comment on “Testing the Ortega Hypothesis: Facts and Artifacts” by M. H. MACROBERTS, B. R. MACROBERTS,Scientometrics, 12 (1987) 293.
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Leydesdorff, L. Towards a theory of citation?. Scientometrics 12, 305–309 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016669
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