Haiko Leitz sent me this message, which he also posted to the CMNS group:
I have retrieved the number of CMNS papers that have been published
in scientific journals using two sources:
a) INSPEC database
b) Dieter Britz's bibliography
(http://www.chem.au.dk/~db/fusion/biblio.html)
Here's the result:
inspec britz inspec/britz
1989 154 251 0,6
1990 237 321 0,7
1991 163 190 0,9
1992 66 99 0,7
1993 53 95 0,6
1994 102 67 1,5
1995 37 54 0,7
1996 44 68 0,6
1997 52 44 1,2
1998 47 52 0,9
1999 39 32 1,2
2000 54 35 1,5
2001 29 21 1,4
2002 33 20 1,7
2003 34 12 2,8
2004 35 8 4,4
2005 36 9 4,0
2006 21 9 2,3
2007 5
Apart from the slight difference which may be due to the fact that
Dieter has carefully selected papers, the result is quite devastating...
My response to him:
These numbers are probably accurate. Britz undercounts the number of
peer-reviewed papers some years because he rejects papers from some
journals, and from the Italian Physical Society ICCF4 collection.
Were you not aware of this trend? It has been clear for many years
that cold fusion is dying, because the researchers themselves are
retiring and dying. This is what I described in the introduction to
my book. I am not optimistic that the field will survive.
- Jed
