In search of better science: on the epistemic costs of systematic reviews and the need for a pluralistic stance to literature search

This paper reviews the current status of academic search engines and emerging trends in scientific information retrieval and argues for two key claims. First, since systematic searches rely on the widespread use of academic search engines and the latter are generally not null powered by cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and not well-positioned to further the goals of findability and discoverability, there are some non-trivial epistemic...