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Where ornithopod studies have been and where they are going is fascinating. I try to provide answers for the history of the study of ornithopod dinosaurs by collecting bibliographic data from the second edition of The Dinosauria. The resulting publication curves were examined for 10 intrinsic factors, nearly all of which increase through the first decade of the twenty-first century. These measures are used to take stock of present-day ornithopod studies and, finally, to try to predict our future as ornithopod researchers in this historically contingent world.