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Original Articles

Navigational and thematic exploration–exploitation trade-offs during web search: effects of prior domain knowledge, search contexts and strategies on search outcome

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Pages 2232-2258 | Received 21 Nov 2022, Accepted 24 Jul 2023, Published online: 10 Aug 2023

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