Back when I first mentioned the idea, people were kind of down on the idea of SciRate.com, Dave Bacon's project to make a collaborative filter for the arxiv.org prerprint server. Not one to be easily discouraged, Dave has continued to work on it, and it now features papers from all the different arxiv categories, instead of just quant-ph.
If you've been sitting around thinking "Gee, I wish there were a Digg for hep-th, well, today's you're lucky day. If you haven't, well, umm... Look over there! Shiny thing!
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Some news for those interested in open-source publishing and "Open Science": Dave Bacon is announcing the debut of scirate.com, a sort of social-networking site for physics preprints:
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Shame if it leads to people overlooking less fashionable papers because they don't get rated highly by enough people.
I also think it would be a shame if less fashionable papers are overlooked because of something like this. However my experience so far has been exactly the opposite in that paper that I normally wouldn't have read, I've ended up reading because people I respect voted or them.
I'm also a bit curious about how often "real" results get overlooked. Maybe I'm just naive because I've got blinders on in a particularly narrow field, but my impression is rarely that this happens. And I do read voraciously. I wonder how you would test this :)
There are lots of questions I'd have about the preprints and how they are read (or not), that would be interesting to research on. Basically, I guess, what are the common internal sorting algorithms that people run, when looking at the preprints list, how they filter what to read based on title, author, hearing from other people plus, of course, seeing what papers cite your own and scanning them, that sort of stuff.
Not to mention other essential components such as:
if (author == Werner)
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