Is evolution in decline?
Is evolution in decline?Bill Dembski (2006) predicts that within a decade evolution will no longer be accepted.
History of the "imminent demise of evolution." The list of "Darwin doubters"
According to Web of Science (online) the number of articles using the keyword "evolution" was:1991 was the first full year that SCI was online.
2013 - 52,152 2001 - 25,509 2012 - 50,136 2000 - 23,451 2011 - 46,450 1999 - 22,736 2010 - 44,022 1998 - 20,850 2009 - 42,834 1997 - 19,475 2008 - 39,714 1996 - 18,120 2007 - 37,452 1995 - 16,668 2006 - 35,185 1994 - 15,470 2005 - 34,848 1993 - 13,953 2004 - 30,302 1992 - 13,485 2003 - 29,297 1991 - 12,008 2002 - 26,021
This translates into an average annual increase in "evolution" citations of almost 8% per year.Eugene Garfield founded the Institute for Scientific Information in 1958. His intent was to improve accessibility of scientific literature for bench scientists. Science Citation Index is now Web of Science run by Thomson Reuters and major international resource which not only supports scientists but helps sociologists evaluate scientific trends and estimate the importance of journals and particular scientific articles.
As of 2015 "keyword" was no longer a search term. The number of titles containing "evolution" was over 36,000 and the number of topics containing "evolution" was close to 200,000.