title: evoText: A new tool for analyzing the biological sciences.
abstract: We introduce here evoText, a new tool for automated analysis of the literature in the biological sciences. evoText contains a database of hundreds of thousands of journal articles and an array of analysis tools for generating quantitative data on the nature and history of life science, especially ecology and evolutionary biology. This article describes the features of evoText, presents a variety of examples of the kinds of analyses that evoText can run, and offers a brief tutorial describing how to use it.
authors.affiliation: KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Grant
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ramsey
authors.affiliation: Louisiana State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. Electronic address: charles@charlespence.net.
authors.forename: Charles H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Pence
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D012984:Software
keywords: Biology; Digital humanities; History of biology; History of science; Philosophy of biology; Philosophy of science; Software; Text analysis