Text mining and summarization technologies can help researchers in 3 key ways: 1) By systematically screening the large volume of literature in their field to quickly assess relevance and quality of papers. 2) By providing quick informative overviews and summaries of academic papers in bullet points highlighting limitations to save researchers time. 3) By extracting references, figures, tables and datasets to allow researchers to analyze information in more depth and follow citation trails more efficiently.

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How researchers are using text
mining and summarization
technology

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Retrieving the most relevant material from an expanding range of sources: research papers,
conference proceedings, theses, reports, book chapters & datasets
Quickly assessing the value and trustworthiness of a paper.
Effectively filtering research in environment of increased use of mobile devices, and
diminishing time available for focused research.
Effectively promoting their work and building their profile in an increasingly
crowded space.
The challenge for researchers

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Publishing scientists growing at a rate of 4-5%
annually
300% increase in the number of preprint
servers since 2015
The research keeps growing
Published work and preprints
5%
300%
56%
Global growth of published articles (2006-16)

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“I make the effort to read (OK, skim)
papers each week, but I confess that
I have given up searching databases
and preprint servers. There is just
too much content published and no
easy way to find things that are
both high quality and relevant, even
using keywords.”
Oliver A. H. Jones RMIT University, Melbourne.

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How text mining can help researchers.
Systematically screen the large volume of literature in their field.
Get quick, informative overviews of academic papers.
Extract references and follow the citation trail.
Extract figure and tabular data to analyse in more depth.
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5 Effectively promote research and build their profile.

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Screening the
literature
• Abstracts vary in quality, can
misrepresent article
• Does the article meet key
quality criteria?
• One-click access to study
participants, methods and
findings

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Quick,
informative
summaries
• Bullet-point summary,
identification of any limitations
• Flashcard containing
information in bite-sized chunks

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Follow the
citation trail
• Verifying citations for quality
(CrossRef/scite.ai confirmation)
• Verifying citation
context/findings
• Access to full-text of cited
sources

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Analyse in more
depth
• Researchers often prefer to
jump straight to the figures,
tables, and datasets
• Not easy to do this with PDF
preprints
• Scholarcy distils the PDF to
provide one-click access to
these in a flashcard format

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Promote
research
University of Manchester
OpenAccess+ social media
promotion via Twitter:
• Scholarcy-assisted summary
• Altmetric mentions
• @ Funders
• @ interested researchers

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