Discovery Curator is an experiment designed by scientists for scientists who share a massive problem every day: What to READ.
With so many millions of papers coming through the publishing and preprint pipelines all the time, the question of what is Good Quality science is hard enough to tackle, but even more important to researchers with little time to spare is —what’s not only good but IMPORTANT?
The Discovery Stack Pilot was our first experiment in trying to attack this question by separating Quality reviews from Impact reviews. Nothing that doesn’t pass Quality review needs to be on the reading pile, but the evaluations of what is Impactful or potentially Important is much more subjective and also much more likely to change in context and over time.
For starters, this means a lasting stamp of ‘Impact’ purely based on an association a particular journal or another meted out on the day of publication is facile at best. While that can cause conversations to start, it’s only that—a start. What we aim to do with our community of research scientists is to keep the conversations going with Discovery Curator about what to read, what to think about it, and how all of that evolves as the great Conversation of Science moves along.
But this is just OUR idea of what could be important and impactful in moving Science forward. We need YOU to join us as a Beta tester of the prototype to help ask questions, tell us what wil and won’t work for you, and help us design something that will serve up just what you ARE looking for every day.
Stay tuned for the sign up sheet, and let us know if you have any questions!
In the meantime, take a look at the Discovery Curator mock-up pages and sign in to see all of the pages showing our first round of thinking.