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

References are employed in most academic research papers to give credits and to reflect scholarliness. With the upsurge in academic publications in recent decades, we are curious to know how the number of references cited per research article has changed across different disciplines over that time....

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Main Authors: Can Dai, Quan Chen, Tao Wan, Fan Liu, Yanbing Gong, Qingfeng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255849