The sheer volume of research can prevent researchers finding research that might be relevant to their work, especially if it is not published in sources they already use.What is needed in the age of the data deluge are tools

^{sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication.Creating new ways to identify and analyze patterns in millions of journal citations, a team led by two biologists, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, and a physicist, Martin Rosvall, has set out to build just such a guidance system,}

as an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education states. The system will consist of "a set of mapping-and-recommendation services that will be freely available and can run on a desktop or laptop computer, so that anyone in any field can use them. The work builds off the thinking behind the Eigenfactor score, a method of assessing journals' relative influence that Mr. Bergstrom and Mr. West unveiled in 2007."