Do competitive forces tend to correct choice errors in journal selection due to imperfect attention on the part of researchers?
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Imperfect attention; Journal impact; Journal visibility; Competitive forces; JIF quartiles; Multivariate indicator space; Unsupervised statistical classification;All these keywords.
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