{"id":1563,"date":"2009-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2009-08-10T22:26:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T05:26:15","slug":"how-i-have-used-scirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"How I have used SciRate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using SciRate<\/a> for 2 1\/2 years. I began using it with certain expectations, but my actual use has differed from those\u00a0 expectations.<\/p>\n

The simplest and most used feature of SciRate is its “Scites” button. With one click, SciRate members can vote for a paper. Initially I wasn’t sure how I should use this feature. What did my vote mean? Should I only vote for a paper I had read? Did it mean I could vouch for its correctness? Eventually my selfishness kicked in. SciRate made it easy for me to see what papers I had scited. And sciting a paper was so light-weight that it became the easiest way for me to mark papers that I wanted to come back to later. I don’t always come back to those papers, but I frequently use my list on SciRate to find a paper whose abstract I vaguely remember reading, or to find a set of papers it would be fun to read over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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I’ve followed arXiv postings for over a decade. Sometimes I skim new postings every couple of days. Other times I’ve gone for weeks without checking. SciRate, by enabling me to filter my review to only papers that others have scited, has given me a wonderful way to catch up after a period of disuse.<\/p>\n

The most unexpected positive result from SciRate was an invitation to collaborate. That use now seems obvious, but it was a surprise when it happened. A fellow researcher contacted me about the possibility of collaborating on a project he believed I would find interesting. I was interested in the project he described, but I couldn’t figure out how he knew that. None of my papers were in that area. All I had done was read about it. How did he know? Then I remembered that I had scited papers in this field. In particular, I had scited one of his papers the previous week. Sure enough, that is what prompted him to contacted me.<\/p>\n

While I have scited over 90 papers, and use SciRate frequently, I have yet to comment on a paper. Why haven’t I? I don’t know the full answer, but there is one type of situation in which I thought I would comment, but I was wrong. I thought I would post comments on papers I had reviewed. I figured I could just post the review, or part of the review, as is. But reviews have a different style from comments. Posting suggested improvements did not seem valuable to the community at large, and I knew the authors would receive my comments via the normal channels. Commenting that I considered a paper to be a “weak accept” seemed inappropriate. In short, even commenting on papers I had reviewed required effort, and the pay-off wasn’t clear. I still intend to use SciRate to comment on papers. It will be interesting to see what will prompt me to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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