I am not focusing. I’m looking at the bigger picture.
A million articles per year? How can this be digested?
It can’t. You just throw it in front of congress and get another grant and then rubber stamp the next article that comes up for review. It’s a perpetual money machine.
“A million articles per year? How can this be digested?”
Science articles are divided up by field. Currently I read space weather papers, cosmic ray effects on microprocessor papers, and total ionizing dose on MOSFET papers because that’s the contract I have.
I don’t need to read paleozoology papers or stuff on mycorhizal fungi ecology in boreal forests papers, stuff from CERN or RHIC (unless people use the accelerators to blast holmium ions into flash memory chips). There are millions of papers that are not relevant to me right now. A previous contract had me looking at and writing stuff on medical lasers including LASIK and prostate surgical lasers, but I don’t look at that now.
Nobody tries to take it ALL in, though I can see how it would be fun to devise some process to do that, sort of a meta meta study of “all science knowledge”.