Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app
Swipe right on the new Tinder for preprints app, Papr by @JTLeek &co
http://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2017/06/great-paper-swipe-right-new-tinder-preprints-app Gathering #statistics on the subconscious swipe
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““We don’t believe that the data we are collecting is any kind of realistic peer review, but it does tell us something about the types of papers people find interesting and what leads them to be
suspicious,” Leek says. “Ultimately we hope to correlate this data with information about where the papers are published, retractions, and other more in-depth measurements of paper quality and interest.”
But don’t take Papr too seriously, because its developers don’t. “This app is provided solely for entertainment of the scientific community and may be taken down at any time with no notice because Jeff gets tired of it,” the Papr website says.”
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