Everything about Babel

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BabelA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The library of Babel: assessing the powers of artificial intelligence in knowledge synthesis, learning and development and coachingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The story of the Tower of BabelThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Open Babel: An open chemical toolboxCited 9,543 times
5. Go sideways: Universal translatorA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Q&AA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Open Babel: An open chemical toolbox

  Noel M O'Boyle, Michael Banck, Craig A James · 2011 · Journal of Cheminformatics · 9,543 citations

• Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an inventory and analysis of terminology and a guide for avoiding confusion

  V. Grimm, Christian Wissel · 1997 · Oecologia · 772 citations

• Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Revised Nomenclature for the Study of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors Part 2: Suicide‐Related Ideations, Communications, and Behaviors

  Morton M. Silverman, Alan L. Berman, Nels D. Sanddal · 2007 · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · 757 citations

• Beyond the Tower of Babel: A Nomenclature for Suicidology

  Patrick W. O'Carroll, Alan L. Berman, Ronald W. Maris · 1996 · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · 730 citations

• Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Revised Nomenclature for the Study of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors Part 1: Background, Rationale, and Methodology

  Morton M. Silverman, Alan L. Berman, Nels D. Sanddal · 2007 · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · 432 citations

• Selecting the language of the publications included in a meta-analysis: Is there a tower of babel bias?

  Geneviève Grégoire, François Derderian, Jacques Le Lorier · 1995 · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 393 citations

• The Current State Of Insect Molecular Systematics: A Thriving Tower of Babel

  Michael S. Caterino, Soowon Cho, Felix A. H. Sperling · 2000 · Annual Review of Entomology · 390 citations

• A cross-sectional study of the number and frequency of terms used to refer to knowledge translation in a body of health literature in 2006: a Tower of Babel?

  K Ann McKibbon, Cynthia Lokker, Nancy L Wilczynski · 2010 · Implementation Science · 230 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The library of Babel: assessing the powers of artificial intelligence in knowledge synthesis, learning and development and coaching

  Jonathan Passmore, David Tee · 2023 · Journal of Work-Applied Management · 32 citations

• Leveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approach

  Miklós Sebők, Ákos Máté, Orsolya Ring · 2024 · Social Science Computer Review · 25 citations

• Corporate purpose: from a ‘Tower of Babel’ phenomenon towards construct clarity

  Nikolai Brosch · 2023 · Journal of Business Economics · 23 citations

• How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel?

  Guillaume Carton, Julia Parigot, Thomas Roulet · 2023 · Business & Society · 21 citations

• BABEL (Better tArgeting, Better outcomes for frail ELderly patients) advance care planning: a comprehensive approach to advance care planning in nursing homes: a cluster randomised trial

  Allan Garland, Heather Keller, Patrick Quail · 2022 · Age and Ageing · 20 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The story of the Tower of BabelAlice Joyce Davidson · 1985
• The Complete Works of Isaac BabelIsaac Babel · 2001
• King Nimrod's towerLeon Garfield · 1982
• On history and other essaysMichael Joseph Oakeshott · 1983
• 📕Bible et archéologieAndré Parrot · 1970
• Isaac BabelIsaak Babel · 1964
• Isaac Babel's Selected WritingsIsaac Babel, Isaak Babel · 2006
• The Tower of BabelAndré Parrot · 1955

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