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16.1 Trends and Intensity
The trends show the Literature Discovery and Regular Searches grew quite rapidly since October 2020 and peaked by December 2020 before declined rapidly. Both hit bottom by January 2021 before they started to creep upwards steadily again.
The Sessions trend has remained relatively steady and fluctuated around the average for 18 months, except for a slight dip in April-May 2020 and February 2021. On the other hand, the Infometric Use trend shows a gradual fluctuation movement throughout the period.
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