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Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

  • John P. A. Ioannidis ,

    * E-mail: jioannid@stanford.edu

    Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859

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  • Kevin W. Boyack,

    Affiliation SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7814-8951

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  • Jeroen Baas

    Affiliation Research Intelligence, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8005-4153

    ⨯

Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

  • John P. A. Ioannidis, 
  • Kevin W. Boyack, 
  • Jeroen Baas
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  • Published: October 16, 2020
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918
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