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It is now widely accepted that science and technology underlie much of the economic growth that has been a highlight of human social development for over 300 years. Science has grown along with social welfare, economy, and the application of human imagination. This chapter describes the scale and scope of the current global system at this writing.
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An early example of a science abstracting service is the collaboration between the Royal Society of London and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. In 1898, the two groups jointly published Science Abstracts compiling 110 abstracts of articles written by a “Who’s Who” of eminent European scientists. See the Institution of Engineering and Technology history of Inspec, www.theiet.org
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Mabe notes that Meadows estimated as many as 71,000 journal titles in 1987 using a broader search string.
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At the time, the Soviet Union was counted as a single nation.
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Wagner, C.S. (2018). The Scale and Scope of Global Science. In: The Collaborative Era in Science. Palgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94986-4_2
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