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100			_aGodin, Benoit
245			_aMeasuring science: is there "basic research" without statistics?
260			_c2003
300			_ap.57-90.
362			_aMar
520			_aBasic research is a central concept of science and science policy. This article examines the role statistics played in helping to create the concept and shows how it was in part constructed by statistics to serve social and political agendas. Most of this statistical work was conducted in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, then standardized by the OECD in the 1960s. - Reproduced.
650			_aFundamental research
773			_aSocial Science Information
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999			_c55917 _d55917