title: [An overview of forensic medicine dissertations studying forensic biology problems published in Russia].
abstract: The objective of this work was to analyse the subject matter and relative number of dissertations devoted to different aspects of forensic biology published during consecutive decades throughout a long period from 1894 to 2009. The main lines of research carried out during this time are specified. Alternation of increasing and decreasing trends in the number of thesis works is revealed. Taken together and categorized in terms of its character, this information on dissertations concerned with the subject of forensic biology may prove helpful for current and prospective planning of research on the identification of material evidence.
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authors.lastname: Gusarov
mesh_terms: D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012426:Russia