Whether we like it or not, with the advent of the digital age, the amount of scientific information produced has been hugely transformed. Several thousand papers are published every single day, which helps with the march of science, but translates to more volume for scientists to digest.

As we can see in the picture below , at times – this growth can be exponential!  Going from a few papers a year to over a hundred every day. Is an insane volume of information. Not only it is difficult to keep up with the volume of publications, it’s also harder to find exactly what you need.

Artikler med ordet "graphene" har økt eksponentielt de siste 5 årene ifølge søkemotoren Sparrho.Publications with “Graphene” in the title grew exponentially in the last 5 years

Tendensen er at man mister tid på å lete etter relevante tidsskrifter og publikasjoner. Her på MindtheGraph vi snakket med Sparrho – a tech start-up founded to cope with this digital tsunami of online scientific publications.  Like us, the start-up was founded and run by former PhD and Masters students.

I motsetning til typiske søkemotorer (som f.eks. Google Scholar eller Web of Science), Sparrho bruker kunstig intelligens til å samle innhold for brukerne, uten at de trenger å søke aktivt og gjentatte ganger etter det.søkemotorTeamet på Sparrho has built a scientific discovery engine using their own analytics and algorithms that allows it to find and distil scientific literature based on user preference to make personalized suggestions. Isn’t it cool? For me, it sounds a little like a major revamp on the concept of the “biomail” platform, once run. Do you remember that?

Sparrho, søkemotoren for vitenskap som leverer tilpassede, dynamiske resultater.

Easy to start. Just type and go.

The results generated is a recommendation system that has a clear academic prowess and strong technology backbone behind it.  The goal of Sparrho is to make life easier for scientists by saving them time.  Interesting, in addition to the main Sparrho search engine – the team at Sparrho have also started working a similar platform called Sparrho Tidsskriftersom er et verktøy som hjelper forskere med å tagge, lagre og dele publikasjoner på en måte som ligner på Pinterest!  They are currently offering a sneak preview of the tool, so klikk her til å prøve det nå.

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Slik ser Sparrho-folk ut. Smart.

Disclaimer: Sparrho is a tech start-up that has created a search and recommendation search engine for scientific information, from publications to patents to conference proceedings and more.  We know that staying up-to-date is difficult as there is too much information out there, and that science is important to more than just the researchers themselves. The problem is no one knows where to find the information they need. The search engine aggregates more than 20,000 sources everyday (accumulating  a total of 20 million different pieces of content) in order to generate a tailored scientific newsfeed. This is a co-marketing action by Sparrho and Mind the Graph.

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