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. 2012 Nov 21;7(11):e49246. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049246

Table 1. Explained variance of future citations estimated by the average number of citations per paper Inline graphic (1st column), the Inline graphic index (2nd column), the annual citations at the time of prediction Inline graphic (3rd column), and all the Inline graphic indicators (4th column).

Time windows Predictors
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