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By revealing who has really influenced the course of science the Science Citation Index seems to be a valuable sociometric tool for historians and sociologists.
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GARFIELD, E. Citation Indexing for Studying Science. Nature 227, 669–671 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227669a0
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