Measuring science: Is there "basic research" without statistics?

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Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-90

  Godin, Benoît ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic research; History of statistics; NSF; OECD; R D; Science policy; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037647094     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018403042001795     Document Type: Article

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