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A comment on “Testing the Ortega Hypothesis: Facts and Artificats” by M. H. MACROBERTS and B. R. MACROBERTS,Scientometrics, 12 (1987) 293.

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Small, H. The significance of bibliographic references. Scientometrics 12, 339–341 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016676

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