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Citing is earlier than Cited?

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Abstract

Generally, it is common that cited papers are earlier than citing papers. But we found three different cases, with more undiscovered. In this letter, we attempted to explain the reasons. However, negative time lag between citing and cited papers may mislead us when we study the characteristics of science.

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@article{arxiv.2006.03767,
  title  = {Citing is earlier than Cited?},
  author = {Xian Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03767},
  year   = {2020}
}

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2 pages, 1 figure

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