The General Growth Tendency: A tool to improve publication trend reporting by removing record inflation bias and enabling quantitative trend analysis.

PLoS One · 2022 · PMC9122180 · PMID 35594252

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Likewise, a study published in Trends in Analytical Chemistry reported an increasing trend in publications in the sensor arrays field during 2008–2018 (Fig 4d) [ 1 ].

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