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The application of biliometric methods and tools for analysing data from information sciences and patent data bases allow us to obtain different representations of an area that is particularly fragmented and difficult to interpret: plant biotechnologies in which nitrogen fixation has been particularly highlighted.
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de Looze, MA. The application of scientometric tools to the analysis of a sector in plant biotechnologies: Nitrogen fixation. Scientometrics 30, 23–34 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017210
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