This article in The Guardian is interesting for a number of reasons. For one thing, it provides some further detail on the ongoing battle between scholars and companies regarding the open-sourcing of publications (making the journals free to the public as opposed to subscription based). The article also hints at the AI capabilities of new data mining algorithms. However, I was most interested (awestruck) by this sentence in the article, "The scale of new information in modern science is
staggering: more than 1.5m scholarly articles are published every year and the
volume of data doubles every three years." Those are truly amazing numbers.
1,500,000 is a lot of articles. It's still fascinating all the things we don't know even given this number.
ReplyDeleteWell a lot comes of articles reference articles that come before it. Thought 1.500.00 articles seem like an obscene amount.
ReplyDeleteHello! This is very big...
ReplyDeleteI gess I'm not surprised, given the amount of scientific articles that I read to understand my research work in the laboratory.
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein
ReplyDeleteThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.