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The half-life of facts: why everything we know has an expiration date
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Current (2012)
Abstract
A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful.
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