![]() This is the basic information you use whether you’re citing a web page, blog post, online article, online video, or even a social media post however, the format changes slightly for each, which we explain below. Reading the paper, or consulting with an expert, is preferable but not feasible given the volume of papers being published.To cite a website in APA format, you must include the author’s name, the publication date, the page or article title, the website’s name, and the URL, in that order. But is it right? The measures used to assess scientific papers mentioned above all look solely at impact but a high citation count can occur on a flawed study, and a paper can be tweeted incessantly or amplified by the news without ever even being read. In short, it has received a massive amount of attention. The paper has since been picked up by 56 news outlets, 12 blogs, 3112 tweets, 5 Facebook pages, and one video. The preprint, “ Presence of SARS-CoV-2 reactive T cells in COVID-19 patients and healthy donors” was posted without peer review on April 22nd on medRxiv, a medical preprint server hosted by BMJ, Yale, and Cold Spring Harbor. To see how this can help, it’s best to look at the world as it exists without scite and the world as it exists with scite. Additionally, with up-to-date data on retractions, errata, corrections, and expressions of concern, users can easily surface if a paper has been corrected or retracted. These smart citations allow readers to see if an article of interest has been cited by others, how it has been cited, and if it has been supported or disputed. We do this through Smart Citations, which are citations that show an excerpt of text from the citing paper along with a description if that text supports or disputes the original article. ![]() This is exactly what we’ve built at scite: a system that allows anyone to see how an article has been cited, not just how many times. What if, like online movie review aggregators such as Rotten Tomatoes, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in science could see at a glance what all citing papers say about an article of interest without having to open every single citing paper? ![]() It is easier to determine how a television show or movie has been assessed by reviewers than it is for scientific papers. Scite does have a peer-review process, but because it is almost universally closed, readers can’t assess it and with preprints there is no peer review. New alternative metrics, such as altmetrics, show how many times scientific articles have been mentioned on social media and the news but this says nothing of quality. Other heuristics, such as the reputation of the journal, the authors, and the organization they are affiliated with, provide some information but not in enough detail. However, this approach is similar to simply listing which newspapers mention a movie - it’s better than nothing, but it doesn’t make it easy to see what they say. There are platforms that list which articles refer to an article of interest. What if we adopted the same processes that exist to help us find the best TV show, movie, book, or album to science articles? The challenge: how to effectively evaluate scientific literatureįor Netflix and other streaming services, it is easy to see what critics have said about the show by checking out services such as Rotten Tomatoes that aggregate short reviews from journalists around the world and indicates if it is a favorable review or not, essentially giving viewers the capability of seeing dozens of newspaper reviews at once.įor scientific research, there is no such platform that allows audiences to easily determine what the scientific literature says about a research article. Choosing the wrong movie or show can be a nuisance following the wrong line of research can be deadly. Source: Ĭrowd-sourced review and recommendation sites such as MetaCritic and Rotten Tomatoes have helped ease the information overload problem with tv shows and movies, but no such service really exists in research. Hundreds to thousands of new preprints on COVID-19 are being posted each week.
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