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Selective citation and the shaping of scientific knowledge : citation network analysis and the diet-heart debate
2020-01-01
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Scientific knowledge is based, in part, on empirical evidence. Scientists contribute to a particular evidence-base by publishing the results of their experiments and observations, but in writing their papers they also use evidence produced by others. Scientists, however, are often selective in the evidence they use and can differ in their interpretations of that evidence. But how selective are scientists when eval...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 556198c6-a853-5d8a-8426-cbe8465bc0e9
- DOI
- 10.7488/era/352