1. My discussion of indicators in sociology here has been much influenced by the views of H. M. BLALOCK as set out in his paper, The Measurement Problem, inMethodology in Social Research, H. M. BLALOCK and A. B. BLALOCK (Eds), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1971, 5–27.
2. e.g. D. de SOLLA PRICE,Science Since Babylon, Yale U.P., 1962 andLittle Science, Big Science, Columbia U.P., 1963. D. S. L. CARDWELL,The Organisation of Science in England, Heinemann, London, 1957. J. VLACHÝ, Science in Retrospect and Forecast,Teorie a Metoda, 4 (1972) 105–160. D. de SOLLA PRICE,-ups and Downs in the Pulse of Science and Technology, paper presented to the International Symposium on Quantitative Methods in the History of Science, Berkeley, California, Augst 25–27, 1976.
3. D. de SOLLA PRICE, Principles for Projecting Funding of Academic Science in the 1970's,Science Studies, 1 (1971) 85–99, andLittle Science, Big Science, op. cit., note 2 Columbia U.P., 1963, p. 19. But see also the counter arguments in S. ROSE, The S Curve considered,Technology and Society, 4 (1967) 33–9 and G. NIGEL GILBERT, S. WOOLGAR, The Quantitative Study of Science,Science Studies, 4 (1974) 279–294.
4. e.g. M. J. MORAVCSIK,Science Development, Indiana U.P., 1975. S. DEDIJER, Underdeveloped Science in Underdeveloped Countries,Minerva, 2 (1963) 61–81. D. de SOLLA PRICE,Research on Research, inJourneys into Science, D. L. ARM (Ed.), University of New Mexico Press, 1967.
5. H. W. MENARD,Science: Growth and Change, Harvard U.P., 1971.