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Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019.

PLoS One · 2021 · PMC8345841 · PMID 34358253

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For the top 30 categories, we used the year as the predictive variable in order to conduct linear regression on the reference density to detect if there was an increasing trend in the number of references cited per article between 2003 and 2019.

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