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Using the data recently presented byLea Velho on the citation rates in and on Brazilian agricultural journal articles, it is suggested that a given such paper is cited by the non-Brazilian scientific literature at the same rate as a paper written anywhere else in the world would be, and that is cited by other Brazilian papers very much more than a paper elsewhere would be. These conclusions are surprizing in view of the prevailing conventional wisdom, and are also exactly opposite to the conclusionsVelho herself derived from the same data.
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Moravcsik, M.J. In the Beholder's eye: A possible reinterpretation of Velho's results on Brazilian agricultural research. Scientometrics 11, 53–57 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016629
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