A scientometric prediction of the discovery of the first potentially habitable planet with a mass similar to earth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Arbesman, Samuel ^a,b   Laughlin, Gregory ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BOOTSTRAPPING; HABITAT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EARTH (PLANET); PLANETS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 78049250402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013061     Document Type: Article

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