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Some reflections on being cited 10,000 times

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This letter describes the author’s reactions to being cited 10,000 times in Google Scholar. Data are provided to illustrate differences between the numbers of citations for books and edited works and between papers on different topics and in different styles.

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I am grateful to Guillaume Cabanac and Ivor Davies for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Hartley, J. Some reflections on being cited 10,000 times. Scientometrics 118, 375–381 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2966-5

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