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Big Pharma, Little Science? A bibliometric perspective on big pharma’s R&D decline

There is a widespread perception that pharmaceutical R&D is facing a productivity crisis characterised by stagnation in the numbers of new drug approvals in the face of increasing R&D costs. This study explores pharmaceutical R&D dynamics by examining the publication activities of all R&D laboratories of the major European and US pharmaceutical firms during the period 1995-2009. Continue reading Big Pharma, Little Science? A bibliometric perspective on big pharma’s R&D decline