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Reaching for Unique Resources: Structural Holes and Specialization in Scientific Collaboration Networks

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|Jul 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/joss-2020-001 | Journal eISSN: 1529-1227 | Journal ISSN: 2300-0422
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