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EDITORIAL

There are many ways for research to be influential, not just citations

Mike Calver https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9082-2902 A *
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A Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.

* Correspondence to: m.calver@murdoch.edu.au

Handling Editor: Alan Lymbery

Pacific Conservation Biology 28(6) 459-461 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22041
Submitted: 25 October 2022  Accepted: 28 October 2022   Published: 29 November 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Research may be influential without stimulating researchers to cite it in a manuscript.


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