Navigating the literature torrent

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It’s humanly impossible to filter and read everything worthwhile – let’s embrace assistance

I don’t know about you, but I look at too many scientific papers every month. I have myself partly to blame for this, since I’m the person who set up all those RSS feeds to scroll through new abstracts. Now, it’s also true that I write a blog that discusses new developments in chemistry and drug discovery, so I always have my eyes open for that. But even without these tools and these motivations, I still have research projects and research areas that I need to keep current in. And these alone would still put too many papers in front of me.