The term became common in scientific literature since ca. 1970s.

"These data and their analysis will be published later this summer in scientific literature."

Since then, the name has been mentioned only once in the scientific literature.

Large numbers of new species are published in the scientific literature each year.

If you read the scientific literature you'd know the answer to this.

If scientific literature and popular science are compared, there is often a big difference.

This species has only been reported once in the scientific literature.

In 1963 the hall of the scientific literature was opened.

It is a term used in much of the older scientific literature.

That same year, the find was reported in the scientific literature.