One way to try to get a handle on what's happening in a scientific field is to study citations in research papers. n a visualization of a complex network with many links, however, it can be very difficult to recognize significant patterns amid the clutter
Unicorn & dragon, griffon & sea serpent, & all relations, take refuge in folklore, until the fantastic & surrealistic release them into literary discourse from older prisons of rational inquiry.
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