Using citation classics to study the incidence of serendipity in scientific discovery

Scientometrics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-24

  Campanario, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

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EID: 0348036134     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02093482     Document Type: Article

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