Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat?
13/05/2020
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epidemic disease ; scientific cooperation ; information processing
Information and library science
English
"Timothy Sheahan, a virologist studying COVID-19, wishes he could keep pace with the growing torrent of new scientific papers about the disease and the novel coronavirus that causes it. But there are just too many—more than 4000 alone last week. “I'm not keeping up,” says Sheahan, who works at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “It's impossible.”"
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