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Title : A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF ACUTE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE IN THE COMMUNITY: THE OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY STROKE PROJECT, 1981–861 Authors : Bamford J, Sandercock P, Dennis M, Burn J, Warlow C Published : 1988 Counting strokes in Oxfordshire: epidemiological rigour and neurological obsessiveness by Charles Warlow Citations are a slippery metric. Slippery to measure because citations from government papers, and books, are seldom counted. Slippery to interpret too. Are many citations because the paper was scientifically groundbreaking like the letter to Nature describing the structure of DNA? Or because it described a trial which changed the way large numbers of people should be treated—for example, by coiling rather than clipping to secure ruptured intracranial aneurysms? Or because the paper described …
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