Introducing Meta Science

Every 20 seconds, a new scholarly article is published in biomedicine, resulting in more than 1.5 million per year. While this surge in global research output is exciting for scientists, it also presents them with a very real challenge – researchers cannot keep up with the current output of literature with the tools that are available to them now. With citation search engines, you enter a keyword, retrieve sets of papers, and rank and filter those papers in various ways. Advanced search products use semantic analyses to provide more powerful filters or improved rankings, but they still require you to at least suspect that a particular paper exists. What about the ones you don't yet know exist?