We are, in a sense, drowning in information. Today, it is unusual for scientists even to read a journal cover to cover—much less to personally parse all information pertinent to even a narrow research area. Increasingly complex content, large digital supplements, and a staggering volume of publications are now threatening old-fashioned scientific reading with extinction. But by using computers to sift through and scour published articles, the nascent technology of text mining promises to automate the rote information-gathering stage—hopefully leaving to human minds the more challenging (and rewarding) activity of higher thinking.
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Rzhetsky et al. (2009) studied this question.
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