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ohwilleke
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What are the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology as measured by production of recent academic papers?
I'm not looking for an exact number, just a relative ranking with some sense of order of magnitude. My motive is to get at the whole mainstream v. non-mainstream issue in a way that isn't skewed by people's personal inclinations one way or the other. I don't know any way to use the main search engines for academic papers to do that kind of search, and lack the expertise to do a good job of creating and assigning categories.
I'm not looking for an exact number, just a relative ranking with some sense of order of magnitude. My motive is to get at the whole mainstream v. non-mainstream issue in a way that isn't skewed by people's personal inclinations one way or the other. I don't know any way to use the main search engines for academic papers to do that kind of search, and lack the expertise to do a good job of creating and assigning categories.