Curating the world’s peer-reviewed literature

D.A. Rew, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

ABSTRACT
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.

The internet has spawned a new world of technologies and information systems that are transforming the international academic publishing environment. This provides new opportunities in professional communication for authors, reviewers, editors and publishers. There are also significant challenges, especially those related to managing the huge volume of available information and assessing its validity and quality.

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