[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":289},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-5022541":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":71,"maker_in_thread":178,"shape":188,"grid":191,"attempts":250,"same_week":251,"maker_shows":31,"maker_hidden":281,"reader_version":282,"card":283},"5022541","Scholrly","A new take on academic search","title","Show HN: A new take on academic search","http:\u002F\u002Fscholr.ly\u002F","scholr.ly","mhluongo",1357585401,2013,37,31,667,1739,39,"shown","productivity","academic search","web_app",[21,24,25,26],"citation graph","scholarly papers","co-authorship","roasted",-0.571,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":30,"critical":32},0,4,10,14,{"execution":35,"idea":37,"performance":39,"design":40,"docs":42},{"positive":30,"critical":36},5,{"positive":30,"critical":38},3,{"positive":30,"critical":30},{"positive":30,"critical":41},2,{"positive":30,"critical":30},[44,44,30,38,30,38,30,38,30,30,30,44,30,44,30,30,44,30,38,30,44,30,30,44,30,44,30,44,30,44,30],1,null,{"problem":47,"audience":57,"pricing":45,"motivation":63,"time_to_build":45,"stack":67,"openness":68,"stage":69,"team_size":70},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Finding relevant academic papers and authors, and following citation networks","maker",[51,54],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},"5022823","That's not \"dick\" at all- we need better messaging. We're a people-focused academic search engine, currently for computer science. Instead of just returning papers, we also…",{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},"5022960","I think I answered this question on the other comment, but more concretely you can * browse the citation and co-authorship graphs without jumping between PDFs. * find authors…",{"value":58,"source":49,"evidence":59},"Grad students, lit review researchers, interdisciplinary researchers",[60],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"5022935","Right now, I think we'll be most useful to grad students. I think we'll also be a good tool for lit review, less cohesive fields, or interdisciplinary work. We've found your…",{"value":64,"source":49,"evidence":65},"Better academic search with people and citation networks at its core",[66],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[],"unknown","beta","team",{"praise":72,"objections":80,"requests":114,"questions":134,"alternatives":152},[73],{"value":74,"source":75,"evidence":76},"Ideas of browsing citation and co-authorship graphs are useful","commenter",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"5022849","Actually- we address some of that! So we don't quite provide a Zotero data utopia (yet...), but * each paper page has PDF links and BibTeX * we extract citation data from PDFs so…",[81,95,102,108],{"value":82,"source":75,"evidence":83},"Search results are poor and irrelevant, with missing big names",[84,88,92],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"5022702","kanzure","I seem to recall when Google Scholar came out that they had a set of example queries. Maybe this was another search engine that did this. Anyway, a set of sample queries with…",{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"5023821","davekinkead","Here's some feedback from 5 mins of use. (My field is philosophy) Searching for paper title 'Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives' doesn't return the paper or author.…",{"id":93,"by":90,"text":94},"5024287","Compare these two searches from a mathematics & CS related area of philosophy: http:\u002F\u002Fscholr.ly\u002Fresults\u002F?q=bayesian+epistemology&x=0&y=0&page=0…",{"value":96,"source":75,"evidence":97},"Interface is cluttered and slow, adds friction over Google Scholar",[98],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"5023131","pataprogramming","Very fast and unfiltered initial reaction: This site is very heavy. Literature reviews are a process of finding the tens of papers you need out of thousands of candidates, and…",{"value":103,"source":49,"evidence":104},"Only covers computer science, not other fields like philosophy",[105],{"id":106,"by":11,"text":107},"5024144","We're only indexing computer and information science related articles right now. One of the interface's most obvious failures is communicating that- we'll try to improve the…",{"value":109,"source":49,"evidence":110},"Author profiles are fragmented and wrongly merged",[111],{"id":112,"by":11,"text":113},"5024664","On search context- very good point. We're putting together a couple graphical summaries to try for profiles, as well as exposing keywords on search results soon. I think you're…",[115,126,130],{"value":116,"source":75,"evidence":117},"Public API and raw citation data in JSON or BibTeX",[118,119,122],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},{"id":120,"by":86,"text":121},"5022917","I imagine it would look like raw data, probably json. Then you can do the mashups play, etc. I think Elsevier has tried some of that to some success (look at their API docs).…",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"5024017","jrochkind1","Yeah? Is there a freely available api for your service, which exposes PDF links among other things? If so, I and many other university library developers would be VERY interested…",{"value":127,"source":75,"evidence":128},"Sample queries and clearer usage instructions",[129],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},{"value":131,"source":75,"evidence":132},"Show full-text PDF links and supplementary materials",[133],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},[135,146],{"value":136,"source":75,"evidence":137},"What does the site do compared to Google Scholar",[138,142],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"5022740","pseut","So, not trying to be a dick, but what does it do? Is it supposed to be a better Google Scholar? The \"about\" page is pretty terse and all it tells me is that your site is…",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"5022772","milesokeefe","So far in my using it, it appears to offer the same features as Google Scholar, and I can't find much on the about page. How would you describe your new take? 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It is light-years better than Google Scholar. http:\u002F\u002Facademic.research.microsoft.com\u002F Example author page:…",{"value":168,"source":75,"evidence":169},"Mendeley",[170,171],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},{"id":120,"by":86,"text":121},{"value":173,"source":75,"evidence":174},"RePEc",[175],{"id":176,"by":140,"text":177},"5024763","You may want to check out the RePEc sites for ideas, they're for econ, so you may not have come across them. One main page is: http:\u002F\u002Fideas.repec.org author listings are:…",{"comments":33,"answered":179,"key":180},7,[181,182,185],{"id":78,"text":79},{"id":183,"text":184},"5022892","I don't mean to be obtuse, but what would that look like? We've been focused on providing a better browsing experience with these citations, but if there's a demand for them in a…",{"id":186,"text":187},"5022974","Oh! certainly! We're a small startup, and don't quite have the manpower for an API yet- but if we keep moving, we'll get there. 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