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Growth of scientific literature and the Barnaby Rich effect

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The Barnaby Rich effect is defined as a high output of scientific writings accompanied by complaints on the excessive productivity of other authors.

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  1. Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, L. Eötvös University, P.O. Box 123, 1443, Budapest, (Hungary)

    T. Braun

  2. Information Science and Scientometrics Research Unit, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, (Hungary)

    S. Zsindely

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Braun, T., Zsindely, S. Growth of scientific literature and the Barnaby Rich effect. Scientometrics 7, 529–530 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017165

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