> how often does one have to skim that many papers in a day, to a level where the freely available abstract is not sufficient? More often than you might think.

> how often does one have to skim that many papers in a day, to a level where the freely available abstract is not sufficient? More often than you might think. To take an example from my own work, I was doing assay design a while back, and needed to collect all existing primer sets in the literature. I probably went through a hundred papers over a several day period.