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Bibliographies of "reference books", namely Encyclopedias, Comprehensive Treatises, and Advanced Textbooks constitute a valuable source of information about seminal papers in various branches of science. Examples are given mainly for chemistry, but other areas might be treated similarly.
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Balaban, A.T., Randic, M. Proposal for Using an Untapped Source of Citations Characterizing Scientific Areas. Scientometrics 49, 517–521 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010597925625
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