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The Landscape of Causal Inference: Perspective From Citation Network Analysis

Weihua AnDepartment of Sociology and Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, Atlanta, GACorrespondence[email protected]
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Ying DingSchool of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, INORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-2567-2009
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Pages 265-277 | Received 01 Feb 2017, Published online: 08 Jun 2018

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