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The General Growth Tendency: A tool to improve publication trend reporting by removing record inflat...

The General Growth Tendency: A tool to improve publication trend reporting by removing record inflat...

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The General Growth Tendency: A tool to improve publication trend reporting by removing record inflation bias and enabling quantitative trend analysis

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Full title

The General Growth Tendency: A tool to improve publication trend reporting by removing record inflation bias and enabling quantitative trend analysis

Publisher

United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2022-05, Vol.17 (5), p.e0268433-e0268433

Language

English

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Publisher

United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

The trend of the number of publications on a research field is often used to quantify research interest and effort, but this measure is biased by general publication record inflation. This study introduces a novel metric as an unbiased and quantitative tool for trend analysis and bibliometrics. The metric was used to reanalyze reported publication...

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Full title

The General Growth Tendency: A tool to improve publication trend reporting by removing record inflation bias and enabling quantitative trend analysis

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_2686260053

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_2686260053

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0268433

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