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Klein et al. 2014 — Scholarly Context Not Found

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Klein, M., Van de Sompel, H., Sanderson, R., Shankar, H., Balakireva, L., Zhou, K. & Tobin, R. "Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot." PLOS ONE 9(12):e115253, 2014.

Key facts: Analysis of 3.5M scientific articles and ~1M URIs. One in five articles suffers reference rot. Among articles citing web content, seven in ten have compromised scholarly context.

Use: E-0039, C-0023.

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