Should the topic sentence contain a citation?
Usually not. The topic sentence is your claim, and the evidence supporting it follows. A topic sentence that is itself a cited finding tends to make the paragraph a summary of one source rather than an argument of your own.
This comes up on Writing Topic Sentences, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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