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How to boil down a pile of diverse research papers into one cohesive picture

  • Written by Mohammad S. Jalali, Research Faculty, MIT Sloan School of Management
imageCan an algorithmic method for analyzing published research help zero in on reality?Sergei25/Shutterstock.com

From social to natural and applied sciences, overall scientific output has been growing worldwide – it doubles every nine years.

Traditionally, researchers solve a problem by conducting new experiments. With the ever-growing body of...

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