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Referencing: The reuse factor

The reference is not dead — it is exploding to encompass the full spectrum of research outputs from lines of code to video frames, explains Mark Hahnel.

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Hahnel, M. Referencing: The reuse factor. Nature 502, 298 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502298a

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