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    "ocrText": "CONFIDENTIAL\nVII. TRENDS OF SOVIET CHEMICAL RESEARCH\nOne of the purposes of this survey was to show the volume and trends of postwar\nchemical research by means of a detailed study of the number of abstracts by the catego-\nries used by Chemical Abstracts and set forth in Table 2. The information collected for\nthis purpose is summarized in Figure 3, page 61 for both journal and patent abstracts,\nand corresponding data for journal abstracts alone are shown in Appendix 10.\nHowever, in view of our previous discussion, it is evident that, with many large\njournals no longer covered, with no new ones to take their place, and with whole areas\nformerly prolific in abstracts no longer covered, the comparisons shown in Fig. 3 cannot\nbe considered reliable criteria of the changes in emphasis of postwar Soviet chemical\nresearch. In fact, it is entirely likely that any such trends are altogether obscured by the\ndecreased coverage of the postwar scientific literature. For example, attention is called\nto five categories where the number of abstracts in 1941 exceeded 100 and the abstracts\nin 1947 and 1948 were less than one-third of the prewar volume. These are: No. 12,\nFoods; No. 13, Chemical Industry; No. 14, Water, Sewage, and-Sanitation; No. 16, Fermen-\ntation Industries; and No. 26, Paints, Varnishes, and Lacquers. It is indeed difficult to\nimagine any factor that would cause any such decrease in the actual activity in these\nfields, such as security reasons or special conditions in the postwar period. On the other\nhand, these categories do have this in common: abstracts in them would be concerned pri-\nmarily with the technology and applied science of the industries involved and reference to\nAppendixes 2 and 13 shows that one or more journals in each field ceased publication\nduring the war and that no new journals have taken their place.\nCONFIDENTIAL\n- 12 -"
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