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The American Petroleum Institute (API) Research Project 6 has been chosen as a model to study the science organization in petroleum chemistry. The quantitative analysis of scientific publications, references, citations and citation lags elucidates the cooperative nature of Project 6.

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    Y. M. Rabkin

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Rabkin, Y.M., Lafitte-Houssat, J.J. Cooperative research in petroleum chemistry. Scientometrics 1, 327–338 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02019304

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