From citation indexes to informetrics: Is the tail now wagging the dog?

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Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 67-80

  Garfield, Eugene ^a  

^a Institute for Scientific Information   (United States)

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EID: 0001805279     PISSN: 00242667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/libr.1998.48.2.67     Document Type: Article

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