I would be great to have an online annotation program where someone can post a draft of a paper and others can annotate it right there in the browser. I know there are commercial sites that do this but an open-source solution would be better. Read more »

One of the main currencies for academics is citations. For better or worse, reputation, funding, jobs and promotions ride on publications and citations. It’s popular to use citation based metrics such as the h-index to rank people. Highly cited papers increase a journals impact factor, making the journal desirable to publish in, and in turn, publishing in high-impact journals increases the perceived importance of the work and researcher …

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