Titles:
New tools aim to tame pandemic paper tsunami
Author:
Jeffrey Brainard
Published:
Science, Volume 368, Issue 6494, pp. 924-925 (29 May 2020)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/924
From the article:
Timothy Sheahan, a virologist studying COVID-19, wishes he could keep pace with the growing torrent of new scientific papers related to the pandemic. But there have just been too many—more than 5000 papers a week. “I'm not keeping up,” says Sheahan, who works at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “It's impossible.”
A loose-knit army of data scientists and software developers is pressing hard to change that.