Capillary electrophoresis has matured into a highly sensitive and widely applied analytical method over the last forty years. Here we combine text mining and computational chemistry to paint, with... Show moreCapillary electrophoresis has matured into a highly sensitive and widely applied analytical method over the last forty years. Here we combine text mining and computational chemistry to paint, with very broad strokes, the applicability and trends in the scientific literature on capillary electrophoresis, simulta-neously demonstrating that this is not only possible, but reveal both expected and unexpected details of this history. All software and data are freely available on GitHub (https://github.com/ReinV/SCOPE) and OSF (https://osf.io/e56zt/). (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Show less