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Dynamics of information flow in the field of rare earth carbides research

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Dynamics of the research of rare earth carbide compounds are analysed by the information flow method. Papers concerning the matter indicated in theChemical Abstracts as well as in surveys of professional literature since 1895 are categorised into a three-dimensional system of 29 descriptors, according to their date of publication. A new, finer unit of scientific production volume is used for the information flow quantification. Selected complete time arrays are approximated using either an exponential curve and the Gompertz function; the growth constants for the time array are also calculated. Development until 1975 is estimated on the basis on the course of the approximated arrays up to 1973 and is compared with the actual state.

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  1. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czechoslovakia

    V. Brožek & P. Karen

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Brožek, V., Karen, P. Dynamics of information flow in the field of rare earth carbides research. Scientometrics 1, 339–357 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02019305

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