Since 1946 biomedical writers have shown no marked trend toward multiple authorship; the average number of authors per paper remains steady at about 2.3. This is in strong contrast tothe conclusion of Price from a study of Chemical Abstracts that the chemists' trend toward four or more authors per paper has been during this period, and continues to be, steeply exponential.
Research THE importance of chemical analysis in research is only to be appreciated by making the most general approach. The ideal component of a material system is one that performs perfectly a desired function for a stated period of time. Ideally, this desired duration of function may be, but is not necessarily, eternity. Industrial research is, categorically, an attempt to approach this ideal as closely as possible, within the limitations set by economic and other practical considerations.Clearly, intelligent progression towards the ideal involves a continual correlation between cause and effect, that is, between physical structure and chemical composition, on the one hand, and function, on the other; so that, given a desired function, the ideal structure and composition may be selected with a minimum of lost motion due to trial and error. This correlation includes, as a necessary first step, the determination of composition, structure, and function; of which the last two are evaluated by the application of various criteria covering the whole field of scientific technic.The determination of composition, however, is the aim and special province of analytical chemistry. It is thus manifest that chemical analysis is an indispensable concomitant of all intelligent industrial (or other) research.
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