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Well, I’m not sure about “prestige”; it seems like another arbitrary metric to be gamed. However, I would like to easily see a non-political db where you can e
by drb91 8y ago
Well, I’m not sure about “prestige”; it seems like another arbitrary metric to be gamed.
However, I would like to easily see a non-political db where you can easily track the paper graph to figure out which papers are based on discredited research and/or researchers taking money from special interest groups.
- namibj 8y agoAny (specific) idea how to get to that data? I might be interested in including this with some other, more general information-flow model{s,ing}. This part seems like making it publicly available would be a good thing, and possibly necessary, and likely aligned with the goals a likely choice of organization to host/maintain the technology would have.
- arthur_pryor 8y agoi'm moderately hopeful that we'll get that sort of querying for free* as the semantic web matures, and we can better query federated linked data. university libraries are pretty keen on making that dream a reality (and this is the sort of use-case that makes them want to be able to do that, though they'd probably pitch the rosier version, where they show the indirect impact of a well-regarded paper or study, because that sells better than the doom-n-gloom version described here, even if that version is just as important). * or if not "free", a very small marginal cost, in terms of say data aggregation and programming effort