Does the Babcock--Leighton Mechanism Operate on the Sun?
  The contribution of the Babcock-Leighton mechanism to the generation of the Sun's poloidal magnetic field is estimated from sunspot data for three solar cycles. Comparison of the derived quantities with the A-index of the large-scale magnetic field suggests a positive answer to the question posed in the title of this paper. 
L. L. Kitchatinov, S. V. Olemskoy
astro-ph.SR