This year marks 350 years since the inaugural publications of both the Journal des S?avans and the Philosophical Transactionsy first published in 1665 and considered the birth of the peer-reviewed journal article. This form of scholarly communication has not only remained the dominant model for disseminating new knowledge (particularly for science and medicine), but has also increased substantially in volume. Derek de Solla Price - the "father of scientometrics" (Merton and Garfield, 1986, p. vii) - was the first to document the exponential increase in scientific journals and showed that "scientists have always felt themselves to be awash in a sea of the scientific literature" (Price, 1963, p. 15), as, for example, expressed at the 1948 Royal Society's Scientific Information Conference
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机译：自从1665年首次发表《萨凡斯杂志》和《哲学交易》以来，这一年已经过去了350年，并考虑了同行评审期刊文章的诞生。这种学术交流形式不仅一直是传播新知识（尤其是科学和医学）的主要模式，而且数量也大大增加。德里克·德·索拉·普莱斯（Derek de Solla Price）（科学计量学之父）（Merton and Garfield，1986，p。vii）–第一个记录科学期刊呈指数增长的文献，并表明“科学家一直感到自己被充斥在一片混乱的海洋中科学文献”（Price，1963年，第15页），例如在1948年英国皇家学会的科学信息会议上所表达的
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