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Comments on the paper byW. Glänzel, U. Schoepflin,Scientometrics, 30 (1994) 375.

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Turner, W.A. What's in an R: Informetrics or infometrics?. Scientometrics 30, 471–480 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018127

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