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Add to this the growing number of citation advantage studies (link 2 below) and it's game over really.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:11.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823'>1.</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823'><a href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1503/1503.05702.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='color:#3B5998'>http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1503/1503.05702.pdf</span></a><br>2.</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823'><a 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