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5.1 Trends and Intensity
The trends for the Sessions, Literature Discovery, and Regular Searches show that they started to proliferate in August 2020 and peaked in November 2020 before declining precipitously from December 2020. Both hit bottom in February 2021 before increasing steadily and peaked the second time in April 2021 (Figure 5.1.a).
Meanwhile, the trend for Infometric Use shows that it remained relatively steady and fluctuated around the averages for the 18-month duration (Figure 5.1.a).
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