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Does the number of roots of an ellipticthe modular form associated to an elliptic curve, on the positive imaginary axis, equal the analytic rank?

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Does the number of roots of an elliptic modular form on the positive imaginary axis equal the analytic rank?

Recently I've been playing around with elliptic curves and have seemingly come up with a conjecture that I could not find elsewhere:

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve, and $f(q)$ its associated modular form. Is it known whether along the positive imaginary axis, the number of roots of $f(q)$ is equal to the order of $L(E,1)$, i.e. the analytic rank?

I've checked a few cases on LMFDB, and the plots of $f\left(e^{-2\pi x}\right)$ along $x>0$ seem to show the same number of roots as the analytic rank of the L-function (or equivalently the algebraic rank of the elliptic curve assuming BSD). One requires several thousand terms of the q-expansion when the conductor is large to have sufficient convergence for all roots to appear. I am curious to know if this has been conjectured before (say as part of the Langlands program) or if it is a known result, or perhaps is actually false?