Growth rates of modern science: a latent piecewise growth curve approach to model publication numbers from established and new literature databases

Growth of science is a prevalent issue in science of science studies. In recent years, two new bibliographic databases have been introduced, which can be used to study growth processes in science from centuries back: Dimensions from Digital Science and Microsoft Academic. In this study, we used publ...

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Published in:	Humanities & social sciences communications Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15
Main Authors:	Bornmann, Lutz, Haunschild, Robin, Mutz, Rüdiger
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Springer Nature B.V 07.10.2021 Springer Nature
Subjects:	Economic growth Growth rate Industrialization Life sciences Science World War II
ISSN:	2662-9992, 2662-9992
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