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		Symbiote on Aug 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? It does help, as the DOI system provides the tracking needed to count citations and measure the "effectiveness" of the researcher.

foldr on Aug 21, 2023 [–]

Such citations are not valued by $FIELD (for most values of FIELD). Only citations of published papers count.

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