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I've used Mendeley (and use papers.app when I'm on a mac) and it has helped me more with organizing papers than in filtering them. What you see as an academic i

I've used Mendeley (and use papers.app when I'm on a mac) and it has helped me more with organizing papers than in filtering them. What you see as an academic in the morning is a 100 papers staring you in the face and you fall back on pattern recognition at points if you don't have more than a few minutes. Whose names and institutions do you recognize? Which titles seem most similar to your line of research? But you can miss a lot of interesting things and not view things tangentially related, but possibly useful as often. Journal clubs attempt to mediate this by having a group of people each pick an article and bring it to the table but crowdsourcing this and having cross lab "bringing to the table" would be very useful.

bioinformatics 16y ago
I agree with you, I'm on a Mac too but I don't use Papers; I use Zotero/Citeulike, that somewhat solve this. But I would like to see something better than these solutions and/or Mendeley, which is ultimately very bad.
jcruz 16y ago
I started JournalFire so journal clubs could post what they were reading online. You can follow clubs or individuals, and the articles they're reading or discussing will show up in your feed. Let me know what you think http://journalfire.com http://journalfire.com
- borga 16y ago
  I'm using it and trying to setup our journal club through it. Nice tool.
MrGunn 16y ago
Just as a technical update, expect to see more recommendations for things to read start to show up in Mendeley over the next couple months. Right now you can go to the article page for a paper, such as this one, http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/#0/abstract:recommender+systems+discipline:computer-and-information-science http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/#0/abstract:r... and get recommendations, but that's not as useful as having recommendations pushed to you so when you get 100 new papers staring you in the face, you get the ranked according to priority and relevance.

bioinformatics 16y ago

I agree with you, I'm on a Mac too but I don't use Papers; I use Zotero/Citeulike, that somewhat solve this. But I would like to see something better than these solutions and/or Mendeley, which is ultimately very bad.

jcruz 16y ago

I started JournalFire so journal clubs could post what they were reading online. You can follow clubs or individuals, and the articles they're reading or discussing will show up in your feed. Let me know what you think http://journalfire.com http://journalfire.com

borga 16y ago
I'm using it and trying to setup our journal club through it. Nice tool.

MrGunn 16y ago

Just as a technical update, expect to see more recommendations for things to read start to show up in Mendeley over the next couple months. Right now you can go to the article page for a paper, such as this one, http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/#0/abstract:recommender+systems+discipline:computer-and-information-science http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/#0/abstract:r... and get recommendations, but that's not as useful as having recommendations pushed to you so when you get 100 new papers staring you in the face, you get the ranked according to priority and relevance.