papers of potential interest to SIG Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
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TITLE: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF THE TOHOKU MATHEMATICAL
JOURNAL (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Oda, T
SOURCE: TOHOKU MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL 63 (4 SP ISS). DEC 2011.
p.461-470 TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, SENDAI
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title
AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Oda, Tohoku Univ, Math Inst, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE: Bibliographic analysis of papers and authors published in
Tobacco Control 1998-September 2011 (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Chapman, S; Derrick, G
SOURCE: TOBACCO CONTROL 21 (2). MAR 2012. p.198-201 B M J
PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title
KEYWORDS+: HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
ABSTRACT: In the present work, the top 20 cited papers published in
Tobacco Control between 1998 and 15 September 2011, the top 10 cited papers published after 2008 and the 50 authors whose papers have been most cited in the journal are reported. US authors dominated the most cited papers and the most cited authors, with Australian authors in second place. Papers on youth and secondhand smoke dominated the top 20 papers, although harm reduction and packaging papers appeared in the post 2008 leading cited papers.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Chapman, Univ Sydney, Sch Publ Hlth, Edward Ford Bldg
A27, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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TITLE: Bibliographic analysis of papers and authors published in
Tobacco Control 1998-September 2011 Invited commentary (Editorial
Material, English)
AUTHOR: Al-Bedah, AM; Qureshi, NA
SOURCE: TOBACCO CONTROL 21 (2). MAR 2012. p.201 B M J PUBLISHING
GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Al-Bedah, Arabian Ctr Tobacco Control, POB 25152, Riyadh
11466, Saudi Arabia
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TITLE: Predictive Effects of Structural Variation on Citation
Counts (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Chen, CM
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.431-449
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth;
MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968;
CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955
KEYWORDS+: UNDISCOVERED PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE; NETWORKS; SCIENCE;
FORESIGHT; ARTICLES; PERSPECTIVE; TECHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;
DYNAMICS; PATTERNS
ABSTRACT: A critical part of a scientific activity is to discern
how a new idea is related to what we know and what may become possible.
As the number of new scientific publications arrives at a rate that rapidly outpaces our capacity of reading, analyzing, and synthesizing scientific knowledge, we need to augment ourselves with information that can effectively guide us through the rapidly growing intellectual space.
In this article, we address a fundamental issue concerning what kinds of information may serve as early signs of potentially valuable ideas. In particular, we are interested in information that is routinely available and derivable upon the publication of a scientific paper without assuming the availability of additional information such as its usage and citations. We propose a theoretical and computational model that predicts the potential of a scientific publication in terms of the degree to which it alters the intellectual structure of the state of the art. The structural variation approach focuses on the novel boundary-spanning connections introduced by a new article to the intellectual space. We validate the role of boundary-spanning in predicting future citations using three metrics of structural variation-namely, modularity change rate, cluster linkage, and Centrality Divergence-along with more commonly studied predictors of citations such as the number of coauthors, the number of cited references, and the number of pages. Main effects of these factors are estimated for five cases using zero-inflated negative binomial regression models of citation counts. Key findings indicate that
(a) structural variations measured by cluster linkage are a better predictor of citation counts than are the more commonly studied variables such as the number of references cited, (b) the number of coauthors and the number of references are both good predictors of global citation counts to a lesser extent, and (c) the Centrality Divergence metric is potentially valuable for detecting boundary-spanning activities at interdisciplinary levels. The structural variation approach offers a new way to monitor and discern the potential of newly published papers in context. The boundary-spanning mechanism offers a conceptually simplified and unifying explanation of the roles played by commonly studied extrinsic properties of a publication in the study of citation behavior.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: CM Chen, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141
Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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TITLE: Biobibliometric Profiling: An Examination of Multifaceted
Approaches to Scholarship (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Sugimoto, CR; Cronin, B
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.450-468
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth
KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; MALE LIBRARIANS;
GENDER; MEN; AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; PRODUCTIVITY;
PERCEPTIONS; KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT: We conducted a fine-grained prosopography of six
distinguished information scientists to explore commonalities and differences in their approaches to scholarly production at different stages of their careers. Specifically, we gathered data on authors' genre preferences, rates and modes of scholarly production, and coauthorship patterns. We also explored the role played by gender and place in determining mentoring and collaboration practices across time. Our biobibliometric profiles of the sextet reveal the different shapes a scholar's career can take. We consider the implications of our findings for new entrants into the academic marketplace.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: CR Sugimoto, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 1320 E
10th St, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
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TITLE: Citation Flows in the Zones of Influence of Scientific
Collaborations (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Barrantes, BSL; Bote, VPG; Rodriguez, ZC; Anegon, FD
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.481-489
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
KEYWORDS+: AUTHORED PAPERS; COOPERATION; INDICATORS; ARTICLES;
NETWORKS; QUALITY
ABSTRACT: Domestic citation to papers from the same country and the
greater citation impact of documents involving international collaboration are two phenomena that have been extensively studied and contrasted. Here, however, we show that it is not so much a national bias, but that papers have a greater impact on their immediate environments, an impact that is diluted as that environment grows. For this reason, the greatest biases are observed in countries with a limited production. Papers that involve international collaboration have a greater impact in general, on the one hand, because they have multiple "immediate environments," and on the other because of their greater quality or prestige. In short, one can say that science knows no frontiers. Certainly there is a greater impact on the authors' immediate environment, but this does not necessarily have to coincide with their national environments, which fade in importance as the collaborative environment expands.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: BSL Barrantes, Univ Extremadura, Dept Informac & Comunicac,
Grp Scimago, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain
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TITLE: Citation Characterization and Impact Normalization in
Bioinformatics Journals (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Huang, H; Andrews, J; Tang, J
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.490-497
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 7:391 1985;
JOURNALS item_title; CITATION item_title;
CITATION* item_title;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955;
GARFIELD E CROAT MED J 41:368 2000;
PUDOVKIN AI P ASIST ANNU 41:507 2004
KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE
INDICATORS; SCIENCE FIELDS; OBSOLESCENCE; PUBLICATION;
ARTICLES; INDEX; DOCUMENTATION; ASSOCIATION
ABSTRACT: Bioinformatics journals publish research findings of
intellectual synergies among subfields such as biology, mathematics, and computer science. The objective of this study is to characterize the citation patterns in bioinformatics journals and their correspondent knowledge subfields. Our study analyzed bibliometric data (impact factor, cited-half-life, and references-per-article) of bioinformatics journals and their related subfields collected from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The findings showed that bioinformatics journals' citations are field-dependent, with scattered patterns in article life span and citing propensity. Bioinformatics journals originally derived from biology- related subfields have shorter article life spans, more citing on average, and higher impact factors. Those journals, derived from mathematics and statistics, demonstrate converse citation patterns.
Journal impact factors were normalized, taking into account the impacts of article life spans and citing propensity. A comparison of these normalized factors to JCR journal impact factors showed rearrangements in the ranking orders of a number of individual journals, but a high overall correlation with JCR impact factors.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Huang, Univ S Florida, Sch Informat, Tampa, FL 33620 USA
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TITLE: Publish or Patent: Bibliometric Evidence For Empirical
Trade-Offs in National Funding Strategies (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Shelton, RD; Leydesdorff, L
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.498-511
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS+: BAYH-DOLE ACT; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; UNITED-STATES;
SCIENCE; SYSTEM; CHINA; UNIVERSITIES; TECHNOLOGY;
INDICATORS; QUALITY
ABSTRACT: Multivariate linear regression models suggest a trade-off
in allocations of national research and development (R&D). Government funding and spending in the higher education sector encourage publications as a long-term research benefit. Conversely, other components such as industrial funding and spending in the business sector encourage patenting. Our results help explain why the United States trails the European Union in publications: The focus in the United States is on industrial funding some 70% of its total R&D investment. Likewise, our results also help explain why the European Union trails the United States in patenting, since its focus on government funding is less effective than industrial funding in predicting triadic patenting.
Government funding contributes negatively to patenting in a multiple regression, and this relationship is significant in the case of triadic patenting. We provide new forecasts about the relationships of the United States, the European Union, and China for publishing; these results suggest much later dates for changes than previous forecasts because Chinese growth has been slowing down since 2003. Models for individual countries might be more successful than regression models whose parameters are averaged over a set of countries because nations can be expected to differ historically in terms of the institutional arrangements and funding schemes.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: RD Shelton, World Technol Evaluat Ctr Inc WTEC, 4600
Fairfax Dr 104, Arlington, VA 22203 USA
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TITLE: An Integrated Approach for Main Path Analysis:
Development of the Hirsch Index as an Example (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Liu, JS; Lu, LYY
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.528-542
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S); MACROBERTS MH rauth;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979
KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; R-
INDEX; IMPACT; SCIENTISTS; NETWORKS; PUBLICATIONS;
TRAJECTORIES; PHYSICISTS
ABSTRACT: This study enhances main path analysis by proposing
several variants to the original approach. Main path analysis is a bibliometric method capable of tracing the most significant paths in a citation network and is commonly used to trace the development trajectory of a research field. We highlight several limitations of the original main path analysis and suggest new, complementary approaches to overcome these limitations. In contrast to the original local main path, the new approaches generate the global main path, the backward local main path, multiple main paths, and key-route main paths. Each of them is obtained via a perspective different from the original approach. By simultaneously conducting the new, complementary approaches, one uncovers the key development of the target discipline from a broader view. To demonstrate the value of these new approaches, we simultaneously apply them to a set of academic articles related to the Hirsch index. The results show that the integrated approach discovers several paths that are not captured by the original approach. Among these new approaches, the key-route approach is especially useful and hints at a divergence-convergence-divergence structure in the development of the Hirsch index.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JS Liu, Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Inst Technol
Management, 43,Sect 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 10607, Taiwan
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TITLE: The Invisibility of Science Publications in Hebrew: A
Comparative Database Study (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Gordon, A
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.607-615
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth
KEYWORDS+: INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY; RESEARCH ARTICLES; LANGUAGE;
CONSEQUENCES; COVERAGE; ENGLISH; IMPACT
ABSTRACT: Since the end of World War II, the English language has
become the lingua franca of science publications worldwide. Science publications written in other languages do not gain the same exposure to the international scientific community as does the material in English.
In this sense, non-English articles constitute an "invisible science" for the rest of the scientific world. This study compares publications indexed in the academic-oriented Hebrew Index of Periodicals (IHP) database with those in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in order to document the amount of scientific material published in Israel, where Hebrew is the native language. Except for abstracts, which are sometimes given in English, as well as Hebrew, and therefore provide some idea of a paper's content, most of this research remains hidden from the international scientific community. The SCIE and IHP databases for our examination cover the three grand disciplines: the exact and life sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Additionally, the study probes the coverage of medical publications in the two databases.
The difference between old and emerging disciplines in the use of a language other than Hebrew is observed and non-English citation patterns for various disciplines are examined. The results confirm the dominance of English as the lingua franca of science and point to the large number of scientific studies in Hebrew that lack international exposure.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Gordon, Univ Haifa, Technion Israel Inst Technol,
IL-31074 Haifa, Israel
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TITLE: The Thermodynamics-Bibliometrics Consilience and the
Meaning of h-Type Indices - Reply (Letter, English)
AUTHOR: De Visscher, A
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (3). MAR 2012. p.630-631
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A De Visscher, Univ Calgary, Dept Chem & Petr Engn,
Schulich Sch Engn, 2500 Univ Dr, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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TITLE: A Review of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology's
Most Cited Publications over the Past 25 Years and the Use of Developing
Bibliometric Methodologies to Assess Journal Quality (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Bickers, DR; Modlin, RL
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY 132 (3 PT 2). MAR
2012. p.1050-1060 NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S):
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
CITED item_title; BIBLIOMETR* item_title;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006
KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; CITATION; CELLS
ABSTRACT: The JID is a major resource for publishing dermatologic
research. Here we document bibliometric systems that permit detailed analysis of JID's relative scientific quality. We provide an overview of metrics employed by ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and Elsevier's open-access Scopus to measure JID's comparative performance. We list JID's 50 most cited articles between 1986 and 2010 and summarize the six most cited papers published during this period. We conclude by showing how selected cited papers have influenced research in the JID subcategories of immunology/infection and photobiology during this period. JID has thrived as the strength of its editorial leadership and the quality of dermatologic science have grown apace.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: DR Bickers, Herbert Irving Pavil, Room 1214,161 Ft
Washington Ave, New York, NY 10032 USA
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TITLE: Dependence of Lotka's law parameters on the scientific
area (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Pulgarin, A
SOURCE: MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 17
(1). 2012. p.41-50 UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE &
INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth
KEYWORDS: Lotka's law; Research productivity; Publication
productivity; Scientometrics; Scientific influence
ABSTRACT: The main aim of this paper was to examine whether the
characteristics of the Lotka distribution of publications (in particular, the changes that the two parameters, n and c, undergo) constitute an indicator of the structure of influence in a scientific field. A quasi- experimental method was used to estimate the parameters of Lotka's law in a number of scientific areas (by means of a series of searches in the Scopus database). The study was performed on 90 sets of author productivity data (resulting from a combination of 10 areas, 14 countries, and 3 time periods). Both the exponent of the law, n (i.e., the slope of the log-log plot), and the constant c (the fraction of authors with only a single publication) were found to depend on the state of development of the scientific area, on its productivity, on the country, and on the time period being studied. A characteristic that distinguished the so-called "hard sciences" from the "social sciences and humanities" was the level of co-authorship, with the average number of authors per publication being greater in science than in the social sciences and humanities. The empirical results show a picture of the behaviour of the Lotka distribution in different situations, due to different causes. This could be interesting as a better understanding of these regularities may allow them to be incorporated into the theoretical context.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Pulgarin, Univ Extremadura, Dept Informat & Commun,
Plazuela Ibn Marwan S-N, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain
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TITLE: Auditing scholarly journals published in Malaysia and
assessing their visibility (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Zainab, AN; Sanni, SA; Edzan, NN; Koh, AP
SOURCE: MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 17
(1). 2012. p.65-92 UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE &
INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR
KEYWORDS: Journal publishing; Electronic journals; Indexation
status; Scholarly journals; Journal audit
ABSTRACT: The problem with the identification of Malaysian
scholarly journals lies in the lack of a current and complete listing of journals published in Malaysia. As a result, librarians are deprived of a tool that can be used for journal selection and identification of gaps in their serials collection. This study describes the audit carried out on scholarly journals, with the objectives (a) to trace and characterized scholarly journal titles published in Malaysia, and (b) to determine their visibility in international and national indexing databases. A total of 464 titles were traced and their yearly trends, publisher and publishing characteristics, bibliometrics and indexation in national, international and subject-based indexes were described.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AN Zainab, Univ Malaya, Fac Comp Sci & Informat Technol,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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TITLE: Motivating factors influencing choice of major in
undergraduates in communication sciences and disorders (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Keshishian, F; McGarr, NS
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 14
(2). APR 2012. p.174-182 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth
KEYWORDS: Motivating factors; speech-language pathology; survey;
undergraduate students
KEYWORDS+: PHARMACY; STUDENTS; SPEECH; SOCIALIZATION; RECRUITMENT;
COMMITMENT; CAREER; SCHOOL
ABSTRACT: The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) whether
background factors influence the choice of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) as an academic major; (2) what motivates students to major in CSD; (3) the relationship between motivation to pursue CSD as a major and the attractiveness of the major; and (4) whether motivation influences the perceived value of a career in CSD. A survey of 143 undergraduates was created and administered to assess motivational factors that influence the choice of major. The participants had diverse ethnic/racial and cultural backgrounds and were enrolled in CSD courses in the Liberal Arts College of St John's University, a US American Institution in Queens, New York. Preliminary analyses indicated that ethnic/racial background and family income had no statistically significant relationship to motivations, attractiveness of CSD as a major, or career value of CSD as a major. Students scored highest on Intrinsic motivation factor (e.g., enjoy interacting with people) and the lowest on Science motivation (e.g., interested in science). Student confidence (e.g., in reaching career goals) was an important predictor in the perception of the career value of a CSD. Results of this study provide further insight into curriculum development and recruiting strategies.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Keshishian, St Johns Univ, Dept Rhetor Commun & Theatre,
8000 Utopia Pkwy, Queens, NY 11439 USA
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TITLE: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SURVEY OF BIOCOMPUTING: 2. SYSTEMS
AND EVOLUTIONARY LEVELS, AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Hong, FT
SOURCE: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND LIVING SYSTEMS 2. 2005.
p.141-573 IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, COVENT GARDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth;
BAILAR JC ANN INTERN MED 104:259 1986;
ADV* EXP* SOC* PSY* rwork
KEYWORDS+: PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION-CENTER; BIOLOGICAL OLFACTORY
PATHWAY; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; CONSTANT MAGNETIC-
FIELD; SHORT-TERM-MEMORY; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; ANGSTROM
RESOLUTION; EXTRINSIC REWARDS; PHOTOSYSTEM-II; GENETIC-
CODE
AUTHOR ADDRESS: FT Hong, Wayne State Univ, Sch Med, Dept Physiol, Detroit,
MI 48201 USA
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