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Aleixandre-Benavent, R., Montalt Resurrecció, V. & Valderrama-Zurián, J.C. Inaccuracies in titles on bibliometrics in biomedical journals. Scientometrics 103, 331–332 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1504-3
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