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Testing the Ortega hypothesis: Milestone or millstone?

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  2. Department of Sociology, Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia Univesity, and Russell Sage Foundation, 112. East 64th Street, 10021, New York, N. Y., USA

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

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Cole, S., Cole, J.R. Testing the Ortega hypothesis: Milestone or millstone?. Scientometrics 12, 345–353 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016678

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