The number of published peer reviewed scientific publications with the term boar taint in the title over the period 1961-2000 equalled 82 according to Web of ScienceTM, on average two publications per year. During the decade 2001-2010 the number of publications on boar taint was equal to 41, four publications per year. This strongly increased to 101 publications during the period from January 2011 to April 2105, one paper every three weeks. We may conclude that scientific knowledge on boar taint is increasing exponentially. There are already 200 scientific papers available on the topic of boar taint. We still need to know more of this complex phenomenon. But at the same time we can state that – besides what still is in the pipeline – there is already a lot of knowledge that companies may benefit from.
