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. 2009 Jul 20;339:b2680. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2680

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Fig 4 Amplification and authority of claim. (Left) Historical growth of supportive and critical citations in network. (Middle) Rearrangement of network (fig 1) to visualise a lens effect in which eight key papers (surrounded by ovals; seven by same research group; 97% of all network traffic passes through them) create citation flows among each other, and both amplify claim and focus citations to supportive data papers. Net effect results in network authority status306 (yellow) of supportive data papers. (Right) Computational elimination of citation bias results in balanced authority of both support for claim and its refutation through additional recognition of critical data papers70 71 72 73 77 as authorities