Do download reports reliably measure journal usage? Trusting the fox to count your Hens?
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Social and Behavioral Sciences; journal downloads; citations; impact factor; academic journals;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-SOG-2019-04-22 (Sociology of Economics)
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