Culturomics - part 3: Researchers aim to chart intellectual trends in Arxiv

<How do you find the moment when a given scientific transformation occurred?” asks Jean-Baptiste Michel, co-director of the Cultural Observatory and a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at Harvard. “You can help the reader figure out where in time the most relevant papers were located, which has always been difficult to do.”>
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<Some historians will be unbelievably fascinated to look at this retrospectively,” Ginsparg says. “What you’re going to be registering are intellectual movements in the community.” He suggests that science policy-makers could even use Bookworm to identify new fields that are in need of funding, or moribund fields that might require fewer grants.>

http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-aim-to-chart-intellectual-trends-in-arxiv-1.10103

See also:
http://teichfischer-fundgrube-digitalisate.blogspot.com/2011/01/culturomics-application-of-high.html

http://teichfischer-fundgrube-digitalisate.blogspot.com/2011/02/culturomics-part-2-googlengram-viewer.html