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An analysis of publications in plant transgenic science shows that the
number of published articles on the development of genetically modified (GM)
crops and the application of plant transgenic technology continues to
increase annually, November 2005 by Philippe Vain.

However, the number of annual publications focusing on the development of
plant transgenic technology has not significantly increased since 1995. The
analysis is based on articles published between 1973 and 2003, which were
collected from the ISI Web of Science and CAB Abstracts.

In total, 30,624 articles or other records were found: 4,545 focusing on the
development of plant transgenic technology; 21,843 focusing on the
applications of these technologies; and 4,236 concerned with the development
of GM crops.

The paper predicts that the lack of growth in the production of articles on
plant transgenic technology development is likely to hamper the further
evolution of basic and applied transgenic science and the development of GM
crops.

A geographic analysis of the data shows that historically, North America
(10,268 total articles cited 181,238 times) and Western Europe (11,532 total
articles cited 161,671 times) jointly led research on plant transgenic
science, followed by Asia (6,342 articles cited 40,850 times).

During the past decade however, the report says that there has been a
sustained expansion of scientific literature in North America, a dramatic
increase in Asia, and recently, a slow-down in the rest of the world,
including Western Europe.

In 2003, Asia produced the same number of articles on plant transgenic
science (1,007) as Western Europe (1,034) or North America (978). Currently,
only impact (the number of citations) differentiates the output of these
three zones.

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