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Information on basic research in the physical sciences is not readily available inScience Indicators — 1976, but it can be synthesized from many chapters of the report. The indicators show that there has been a greater decline in real support by the federal government for the physical sciences than for engineering, the social sciences, or the life sciences. Additional information is needed on the response to this reduction in funding. The author concludes by calling for an accounting of the costs and benefits to basic research of reduced funding and suggests items which should be included in such an accounting.
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I wish to acknowledge the helpful discussion with D. HywelWhite in preparing these remarks.
RaymondBowers, who prepared and presented this paper at the Review Symposium onScience Indicators — 1976, May, 1978, died before be could review the manuscript for publication.
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Bowers, R. Indicators of basic research in the physical sciences. Scientometrics 2, 429–433 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02095086
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02095086