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No-bells for ambiguous lists of ranked Nobelists as science indicators of national merit in physics, chemistry and medicine, 1901-2001

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    Tibor Braun, Zsuzsa Szabadi-Peresztegi & Éva Kovács-Németh

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Braun, T., Szabadi-Peresztegi, Z. & Kovács-Németh, É. No-bells for ambiguous lists of ranked Nobelists as science indicators of national merit in physics, chemistry and medicine, 1901-2001. Scientometrics 56, 3–28 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021998006078

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