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Review Articles and Data Compliation
Pages 419-422

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... % No. % TOTAL52,458 100.09,459 100.05,281 100.0 Total Five Selected Countries6,455 12.31,262 13.3808 15.3 United Kingdom4,839 9.21,032 10.9468 8.9 France251 0.537 0.4156 3.0 West Germany909 1.7174 1.897 1.8 Japan372 0.713 0.149 0.9 U.S.S.R.84 0.26 0.138 0.7 Source: Data from the Biological Sciences Communication Project of the George Washington University, Wash ington, D.C.
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... (Source: Biological Sciences Communication Project, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
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... To be sure, the quality of reviews could benefit from more critical analyses, but it seems likely that coverage in many fields is adequate to the needs of the user community. Compilations of biological data, based on careful critical evaluations of the relative accuracy and reliability of data reported by different investigators, are becoming another useful source of information for life scientists.
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