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The paper describes the analysis and application of manpower statistics to identify some long‐term international research trends in economic entomology and pest control. Movements in research interests, particularly towards biological as opposed to insecticidal methods of control, correlations between these sectors, and the difficulties encountered in the construction of a sampling frame and subsequent analysis, are described.
Rothman et al. (Thu,) studied this question.