Want to analyze millions of scientific papers all at once? Here’s the best way to do it | Science | AAAS

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"Now, many researchers are just using abstracts, says study co-author Lars Juhl Jensen, a bioinformatician at the University of Copenhagen. These summaries are typically much easier to get ahold of than full research papers, have fewer legal restrictions on their use, and are much easier for computers to read due to their simple formatting.

Given those advantages, researchers using text mining may not switch from abstracts any time soon, Himmelstein says. An additional obstacle, he notes, is that because of restrictions put on many full-text articles by publishers, researchers are often restricted from sharing the databases of papers they download and prepare for text mining—making it extremely difficult for others to replicate their research."

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/want-analyze-millions-scientific-papers-all-once-here-s-best-way-do-it

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07/22/2017, 20:31

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