Building a TEA laser: the caprices of communication

HM Collins, RG Harrison - Social Studies of Science, 1975 - journals.sagepub.com
HM Collins, RG Harrison
Social Studies of Science, 1975journals.sagepub.com
Building a TEA Laser: The Caprices of Communication Page 1 441 articles were sampled
again, as it were, never more than three times. Because each cell represents a sampling frame
independent of that for other cells, the same reference could be selected more than once. This
indeed happened on two occasions. f When the 45 serial references are separated by form
and controlled by age of the referring article, letters papers are merely a quarter of a year
younger than full-length papers. If this datum is at all representative, the formal communication …
Authors’ addresses:(respectively) School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
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