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Bibliometric evaluation of the significance of individual authors’ publications

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  1. RAS Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russia

    E. D. Sverdlov (RAS adviser and the head)

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Original Russian Text © E.D. Sverdlov, 2006, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2006, Vol. 76, No. 12, pp. 1073–1085.

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Sverdlov, E.D. Citation mirages. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 76, 530–541 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331606060037

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