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DE SOLLA PRICE has described in some detail the overall growth of science1, but to those concerned with planning scientific research it is important to know the relative growth rates of various topics within a restricted field. Ideally such studies should be based on details of manpower, allocation of research funds, numbers of papers produced and so on, but in practice data on numbers of publications are easier to obtain than those on manpower and funds.
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ROTHMAN, H., WOODHEAD, M. Publication Trends in Biological Control. Nature 220, 1053–1054 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201053a0
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