Science in an Exponential World

Alexander Szalay
The Johns Hopkins University, USA

The amount of scientific information is doubling every year. This exponential growth is fundamentally changing every aspect of the scientific process – the collection, analysis and dissemination of scientific information. Our traditional paradigm for scientific publishing assumes a linear world, where the number of journals and articles remains approximately constant. The paper presents the challenges of this new paradigm and shows examples of how some disciplines are trying to cope with the data avalanche.

Keywords : Data Management, eScience