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Measuring Science: is there "Basic Research" without Statistics?

Benoît Godin

3465 rue Durocher, Montréal, Québec, Canada H2X 2C6. benoit.godin{at}inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca

Basic 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.

Key Words: Basic research • History of statistics • NSF • OECD • R&D • Science policy • Statistics

Social Science Information, Vol. 42, No. 1, 57-90 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0539018403042001795
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