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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><a name="_GoBack"></a><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-font-kerning:18pt;">The
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">is now published at <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-59951-5">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-59951-5</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><b><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508"></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Tahoma',sans-serif ;">Loet Leydesdorff</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><b style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">________________________________</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam <br />
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)</span><o:p xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"></o:p></font></p>
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<a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en</a></span><o:p xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098</a>;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge" at</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><o:p xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"></o:p></b></font></p>
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