Easy Does it

August 13, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship.” Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles from science journals. He discovered a paradox: As journals begin publishing online, making it easier for researchers to find and search their contents, research tends to become more superficial.

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