Curating the world’s peer-reviewed literature
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New technologies are transforming academic publishing, including surgical research. The author considers a variety of the new systems, platforms and search engines that are fuelling this information revolution, as well as the bibliometrics and citation analysis necessary for filtering quality material for the increasingly inundated researcher.
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