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research front: a standalone construct

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the small, active part of a field's literature, its recent papers that new work cites heavily, as distinct from the large archive of older papers.

In scientometrics, research front refers to the small, active part of a field's literature, its recent papers that new work cites heavily, as distinct from the large archive of older papers. This meaning comes from Price (1965) in Science.[1]

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  1. Price, D. J. d. S. (1965). Networks of Scientific Papers. Science, 149(3683), 510-515. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.149.3683.510

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