Gregory Arago wrote
>
> Don's claim that "the number of OOL researchers is substantial" I am
> both surprised and intruiged by - I would have thought the opposite.
> What does 'substantial' mean - 2%, 10%, 50%? I'm curious to hear what
> percentage of natural scientists actually *do research* on origins of
> life. Surely engineers rarely do OOL or OOH(uman consciousness) research.
>
DN: I am talking about scientists, not engineers.
I have just checked the Web of Science database. I chose the decade 1996-2005, and the subject "origin of life". For title plus abstract that turned up 4974 documents. For title only, there were 276 documents.
Allowing for muliple authors of a paper, multiple papers by an author, and general noise, I think that that means that there are a few hundred active OOL researchers.
Don
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