Citations: Are They an Objective Measure of Scholarly Merit?

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  1986

• Venue

  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

• Publication date

  1986-01-01

• Fields of study

  Art, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1086/494230
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  Semantic Scholar

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