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Can someone describe the differences between this and something like ResearchGate [0]? The article here, which reads like a press release, does not provide much
by FTA 9y ago
Can someone describe the differences between this and something like ResearchGate [0]? The article here, which reads like a press release, does not provide much information beyond 'democratizing access' and 'curating content'. Oh, and throwing some punches at the big journals.
A cursory browse of their website seems to indicate they are just indexing abstract repositories and providing links to arXiv or the journal articles. Further, searching a topic like climate change science [1] yields only 89(!!) results, of which only 24 are displayed. And those appear to just be the most recently published--little value added.
From the headline, I was hoping this would be a paradigm-shifting new publishing company fostering a variety of open access journals. Instead, it seems to be a "machine learning applied" version of ResearchGate, Google Scholar, and many other similar platforms.
[0]: https://www.researchgate.net https://www.researchgate.net
[1]: https://www.sparrho.com/search/climate%20change%20science/ https://www.sparrho.com/search/climate%20change%20science/
- icelancer 9y agoWell, researchgate likes to tell me I'm not elite enough to join their services despite having preprints and journal papers waiting for peer-review... "Sorry, we were unable to approve your account request. We've sent you an email to ask you to provide some information about your research so we can reprocess your request. Please click on the link in the email to do so." Oh yeah, and they never actually sent me an email.
- cing 9y agoThere doesn't need to be any difference between this service and ResearchGate (or multiple other services in this space) for it to offer a better solution to academic paper discovery. There doesn't need to be any content under your desired search query either (although, you can sort by relevance after logging in). The article/press release states this is a free platform for people to collect and share "boards" on research topics, like Pinterest. Why not just evaluate it at that?