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If I wanted to know what the community thought of a particular paper, is there a place where I can find a discussion of it? I thought maybe researchgate was the
by danilor 3y ago
If I wanted to know what the community thought of a particular paper, is there a place where I can find a discussion of it? I thought maybe researchgate was the place, but I usually don't see discussion on the paper submission there. I know sometimes you can find the peer reviewer comments before the paper got published, but what I mean is comments from other scientists.
- lamontcg 3y agohttps://pubpeer.com/ https://pubpeer.com/ but it is hit or miss. It has a browser extension so it'll alert you if it finds URLs to papers with discussions.
- bowsamic 3y agoAs a physicist, no, that's not a thing, at least not that I know of. Beyond whatever you can find from a simple google search is unknown to us Best you can do is look for papers that cite this paper.
- bjelkeman-again 3y agoSo are the only informal discussions done in person, or via email?
- mseri 3y agoBoth I’d say. More recently also online calls/conferences/seminars, and (way more rarely but it happens) on twitter/mastodon/…
- staunton 3y agoMaybe math overflow or physics overflow might work in rare cases... For most papers, I don't think there's really much a layperson can actively do to find out what experts think.
- leephillips 3y agoScientists comment on papers by writing papers. For a paper that just appeared, wait a year or so, and check Google Scholar for papers that cite this paper. Check again every few months. If you know physicists with an interest in this field, you can ask them if they’ve seen the paper and what they think of it. If they have an opinion they’ll probably share it with you freely, but they won’t write it down anywhere.
- rsp1984 3y agoI created a platform to solve exactly this problem: https://gotit.pub/ https://gotit.pub/ Let me know if you have any feedback, always happy to chat!
- jpmattia 3y agoIt's an interesting idea for a site. Feedback: Searching by Topic, Title or arxiv ID would be well augmented by a DOI search, especially for the current post.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agohttps://gotit.pub/view/1e023g4l3o6b3t1f1q625c4g https://gotit.pub/view/1e023g4l3o6b3t1f1q625c4g I made a link cause I didn't see one via search
- throwaway81523 3y agophysicsforums.com is kind of ok sometimes, though I don't go there myself.