The Chronicle of Higher Education

New Online Service Lets Biologists Vote on Most Important Articles

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

More than 1,400 biologists have volunteered for a new online service that rates the quality of scientific papers in the life sciences by essentially allowing a broad group of researchers to vote on which papers they think are most interesting. The service's organizers say it challenges the traditional system of judging the significance of...

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