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Dev tools · June 3, 2011

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Comments on Science

Comments on Science is a free and public user-generated database of scientific comments. Commenting on papers in academic journals is a complicated process, with many steps between an idea for a comment and the appearance of that comment in a (mostly closed-access) publication. The goal of Comments on Science is to reduce this friction and enable accessible and free scientific communication. About the site: I decided to build something useful in the month of May and this is what I made. It has a few features like following (users, papers, or comments), tagging, voting, etc. It was a nice…

Comments on Science launched on June 3, 2011 with 10 votes, #50 of 181 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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Comments on Science is a free, public database where users can post comments on academic papers without navigating traditional journal submission processes. It aims to make scientific discussion more accessible by bypassing the complicated steps and paywalls typically involved in publishing comments in closed-access journals. The platform includes features like following users and papers, tagging, and voting to help organize and surface relevant discussions in the scientific community.

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Comments on Science is a free and public user-generated database of scientific comments. Commenting on papers in academic journals is a complicated process, with many steps between an idea for a comment and the appearance of that comment in a (mostly closed-access) publication. The goal of Comments on Science is to…

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