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The literature of synthetic chemistry is growing at a rate of 8.7% a year—that is, doubling every 8.3 years. Data on 1.2 million compounds based on more than 128,000 abstracts published in Index Chemicus have been analysed. The articles abstracted contain 9.2 new compounds on average.
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GARFIELD, E., REVESZ, G. & BATZIG, J. The Synthetic Chemical Literature from 1960 to 1969. Nature 242, 307–309 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242307a0
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