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See also: http://peerlibrary.org http://peerlibrary.org http://www.pubpeer.com http://www.pubpeer.com There have been many more "comment on scientific papers"

See also: http://peerlibrary.org http://peerlibrary.org http://www.pubpeer.com http://www.pubpeer.com There have been many more "comment on scientific papers" sites that came before these, including one I built myself in 2011. This is a really difficult market to succeed in, in fact, no one up to this point has. I hope you do. Good luck!

dalek2point3 12y ago
care to elaborate more? I've always been interested in something like this to succeed. Its ridiculous that even today research papers have to go to an unknown set of referees who have no help from a wider bunch of more intelligent people to help them dissect whats good and bad about the paper. It is also great for outsiders/newcomers to quickly understand what the research community thinks about a particular paper.
- alphydan 12y ago
  Or, an open access journal (with discussions and feedback) that I enjoy reading and will probably submit to in the future is https://peerj.com/ https://peerj.com/ In physics there's obviously the ArXiv, and various sites to rate and comment like, https://scirate.com/ https://scirate.com/
alixander 12y ago
Ah I searched for similar sites before making this but missed these, thanks for sharing them! Pubpeer describes itself as for researchers/scientists but Peerlibrary seems to be pretty close. A little difference in intent: The idea I had in mind wasn't for someone to particularly do research/collaborate in a field, but just to discover interesting/enlightening papers to read given the urge to learn, in-depth, something new. I thought about attaching a "pre-requisites" fields or "difficulty" field but I wasn't sure if that'd work. The inspiration was just some people posting in my school's Computer Science group that they wanted to start reading research papers, asking where to start. Hopefully in the near future the "Most Favorite" will be a good list to begin with.
- paletoy 12y ago
  Not wanting to discourage you, but reddit.com/r/science does something pretty similar and very successfully - they have 6 million subscribers ,many comm enters are scientists, and the comment quality is usually very high , and they have the reddit mail support which is highly conductive to getting responses from people.
Scitr 12y ago
Scitr.com is different.
jasonpriem 12y ago
And if you'd like a yet more comprehensive list of these "comment on scientific papers" sites, here's a community-curated list of 'em I started...there's around 50 listed now I think: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvwe7MrP3PtE-bWHkkdq7Q/edit#heading=h.uhoilqhqulp8 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvw... It's a great idea and I hope someone finds the way to make it work.

dalek2point3 12y ago

care to elaborate more? I've always been interested in something like this to succeed. Its ridiculous that even today research papers have to go to an unknown set of referees who have no help from a wider bunch of more intelligent people to help them dissect whats good and bad about the paper. It is also great for outsiders/newcomers to quickly understand what the research community thinks about a particular paper.

alphydan 12y ago
Or, an open access journal (with discussions and feedback) that I enjoy reading and will probably submit to in the future is https://peerj.com/ https://peerj.com/ In physics there's obviously the ArXiv, and various sites to rate and comment like, https://scirate.com/ https://scirate.com/

alixander 12y ago

Ah I searched for similar sites before making this but missed these, thanks for sharing them! Pubpeer describes itself as for researchers/scientists but Peerlibrary seems to be pretty close. A little difference in intent: The idea I had in mind wasn't for someone to particularly do research/collaborate in a field, but just to discover interesting/enlightening papers to read given the urge to learn, in-depth, something new. I thought about attaching a "pre-requisites" fields or "difficulty" field but I wasn't sure if that'd work. The inspiration was just some people posting in my school's Computer Science group that they wanted to start reading research papers, asking where to start. Hopefully in the near future the "Most Favorite" will be a good list to begin with.

paletoy 12y ago
Not wanting to discourage you, but reddit.com/r/science does something pretty similar and very successfully - they have 6 million subscribers ,many comm enters are scientists, and the comment quality is usually very high , and they have the reddit mail support which is highly conductive to getting responses from people.

Scitr 12y ago

Scitr.com is different.

jasonpriem 12y ago

And if you'd like a yet more comprehensive list of these "comment on scientific papers" sites, here's a community-curated list of 'em I started...there's around 50 listed now I think: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvwe7MrP3PtE-bWHkkdq7Q/edit#heading=h.uhoilqhqulp8 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvw... It's a great idea and I hope someone finds the way to make it work.