The impact of geographic inequality in federal research funding: A comparative longitudinal study of research and scholarly outputs in EPSCoR versus non-EPSCoR states.

PLoS One · 2023 · PMC10275440 · PMID 37327243

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Because older journal articles have a greater time to collect citations, our data showed a decreasing trend over time from the oldest to the newest articles.

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