This article uses computerized analysis of text, along with a close reading of text,
to trace change and development in Burkitt's lymphoma research. While past
researchers have focused on the way a text enters the literature, we wish to learn
what happens to knowledge claims after they arrive in the published literature. In
order to explain why some claims are successfully solidified into facts while others
remain as isolated, unsupported claims, we rely upon the notion of the material
and social technology required to do successful work in a research area
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