Daily Caller
By Kaye Smythe
March 4, 2024
A study published in 2024 detailed argued that online database mismanagement has led to millions of scientific papers disappearing from the internet.
Researchers analyzed more than 7 million digital publications and found that the industry has failed to keep up with the rate of growth within scientific data output, according to the study published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. “Our entire epistemology of science and research relies on the chain of footnotes,” study author Martin Eve told Nature. “If you can’t verify what someone else has said at some other point, you’re just trusting to blind faith for artifacts that you can no longer read yourself.”