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

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...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Joost L D Nelis, Gonçalo Rosas da Silva, Jordi Ortuño, Aristeidis S Tsagkaris, Benny Borremans, Jana Haslova, Michelle L Colgrave, Christopher T Elliott
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268433