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Computer Science/Math. Here's an almost completely random example, I literally searched for "graph coloring paper" just because that was a subject I could thin

by anyfoo 4y ago

Computer Science/Math. Here's an almost completely random example, I literally searched for "graph coloring paper" just because that was a subject I could think of top of my head, and found this as first hit: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/Papers/coloring_worstcase.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/Papers/coloring_worstcase.pdf Yep, no date.

maxov 4y ago
In case you do not know, I find Google Scholar to be pretty useful for finding dates and other information about the paper - e.g. in this case https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=New+Approximation+Algorithms+for+Graph+Coloring&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=New... I work with papers in CS/math and have been able to find dates and metadata like DOI pretty quick. There are complications when there are really multiple versions of a paper, like one in a conference that is only an extended abstract and one in a journal, but you would need to figure out which version you want to read in that situation anyway. I agree it's annoying, but coupled with reference manager software like Zotero it's hardly an issue for me.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago
  Google Scholar is a great tool but I fear its days are numbered. It's already frustrating that they removed the feature hot linking to an article's scholar page if you enter the title in google search.
  - maxov 4y ago
    If Google Scholar is sunset that would be a great loss for the academic community. When was that feature removed? I have felt reasonably confident in Google Scholar so far because it is already 18 or so years old.
bombcar 4y ago
You deduce a lower bound for the date based on the years of cited publications
- mwcremer 4y ago
  One wonders how the author got _those_ dates...
- anyfoo 4y ago
  I mentioned that in a sibling comment. Of course, what I actually do is just a web search for the paper’s title.
joppy 4y ago
That’s a preprint - check the published version https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/176584.176586 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/176584.176586 which has a date on the front page of the article.
- anyfoo 4y ago
  That's a good point. Given how many apparent preprints I come across, though, I wish they'd just put a date on the front page, too.

by anyfoo 4y ago

maxov 4y ago

In case you do not know, I find Google Scholar to be pretty useful for finding dates and other information about the paper - e.g. in this case https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=New+Approximation+Algorithms+for+Graph+Coloring&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=New... I work with papers in CS/math and have been able to find dates and metadata like DOI pretty quick. There are complications when there are really multiple versions of a paper, like one in a conference that is only an extended abstract and one in a journal, but you would need to figure out which version you want to read in that situation anyway. I agree it's annoying, but coupled with reference manager software like Zotero it's hardly an issue for me.

jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago
Google Scholar is a great tool but I fear its days are numbered. It's already frustrating that they removed the feature hot linking to an article's scholar page if you enter the title in google search.
- maxov 4y ago
  If Google Scholar is sunset that would be a great loss for the academic community. When was that feature removed? I have felt reasonably confident in Google Scholar so far because it is already 18 or so years old.

bombcar 4y ago

You deduce a lower bound for the date based on the years of cited publications

mwcremer 4y ago
One wonders how the author got _those_ dates...
anyfoo 4y ago
I mentioned that in a sibling comment. Of course, what I actually do is just a web search for the paper’s title.

joppy 4y ago

That’s a preprint - check the published version https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/176584.176586 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/176584.176586 which has a date on the front page of the article.

anyfoo 4y ago
That's a good point. Given how many apparent preprints I come across, though, I wish they'd just put a date on the front page, too.