Life Science's Average Publishable Unit (APU) Has Increased over the Past Two Decades.

Quantitative analysis of the scientific literature is important for evaluating the evolution and state of science. To study how the density of biological literature has changed over the past two decades we visually inspected 1464 research articles related only to the biological sciences from ten sch...

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Main Authors: Radames J B Cordero, Carlos M de León-Rodriguez, John K Alvarado-Torres, Ana R Rodriguez, Arturo Casadevall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4911092?pdf=render