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Paper‐trail index
Author(s) -
Berlin Shai
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201540463
Subject(s) - index (typography) , publication , library science , ranking (information retrieval) , value (mathematics) , history , environmental ethics , computer science , political science , world wide web , law , philosophy , information retrieval , machine learning
Many scientific manuscripts have a long paper trail of previous submissions, reviewer comments, editorial decisions and improvements. Collecting and making this information public as a ‘paper‐trail index’ would allow the community to better judge the history and quality of individual papers and thereby provide a fairer method of judging authors.