As you probably know, I’m a ubicomp researcher by day. However, on the side, NICTA‘s allowed me to allocate some of my time to develop a new way for researchers to review and publish papers. We’ve deployed a very early proof-of-concept of our idea called Citemine. We think Citemine has several nice properties, including a potentially more meaningful measure of research quality than existing indicators such as h index and raw citation counts. You can read all about the underlying mechanism in Citemine here. Until we deploy a feedback mechanism for papers, please leave your comments about Citemine at the official Citemine blog.
Note that we’re experiencing a few difficulties with our Citemine production server environment, which means slow page loads from time to time. And it’s clearly lacking polish, but hopefully it serves its purpose as a proof-of-concept so that you can get a feel for what it’s all about. But please do read the paper. I’ve been told it’s a fun
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3 replies on “Citemine: a new way to do peer review and publishing”
Hi Ricky,
Went to an IIB seminar this week and a guy from IBM was speaking about what they are doing to try to clean up the mess that is the current patent system in the ICT space. The gist of it is that they are advocating more peer review of patent applications in order to weed the weaker ones out BEFORE they are awarded.
Made me think about your project, and how there might be another potential application of the app for you.
My notes are here.
Cheers!
Paul
The Thin Line » Blog Archive » Citemine: a new way to do peer review and publishing great article thank you.
Hi. I read the paper. It’s interesting, although you don’t cite some papers by myself which are very related :) and that define “a quantitative measure of reviewing reputation” that is different from your one, and has been published years ago.
If you want to read, probably the best starting point is a recent post in my blog: http://etuttounmagnamagna.blogspot.com/2009/03/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publication.html.
If you look at the entries tagged “peer review” in the blog you’ll find more.
Have a look. I think this topic is very interesting, and I’d be much happy to collaborate.
S.