Qiqqa Sniffer supports looking for papers at various sites (including the notorious Google Scholar).
What Qiqqa does NOT yet help with is discovering whether papers are subject to:
critique (whether from scientific or other circles)
plagiarism (I suspect several electronics papers in my collection are near-copies of other work, but the suspicion is all I have and tagging/commenting/flagging such a thing, together with references, in the metadata, is not specifically provided: these comments, etc. would bee part of the general stream of annotations stored with a paper.)
fraud (one may even intentionally collect such papers, e.g. publications by my famous countryman Diederik Stapel - who then went and published his memoirs about the endeavour. 🤦 )
retraction (which can happen due to other causes than the above, e.g. lab practices found wanting (anyone recall "cold fusion"?)
serious doubt and reproducibility issues: then there's another Dutch researcher who's gone less quantum than he wanted: Leo Kouwenhoven.
There's a bunch of others whos names I cannot recall right now, but findings, fun, fraud and funding all start with a 'f'. And I would dearly have those relationships marked up more easily in Qiqqa.
This is a feature request related to an overarching functionality that's not very big in Qiqqa now: document relations: type / quality: Qiqqa does, by design, automatically detect and prevent polluting a library with pure duplicates, but:
are my X documents I have here:
reprints?
duplicates, but with a different university/magazine/arXiv/researchgate/whatever-supplier... banner page?
edited revisions? (arXiv: v1, v2, v3, ...)
preprints (another kind of 'revision/edition' really)
extracts or shortened versions of document Y, which is part of the set X (or not)?
chapters from a book or bundle (groupings!)
and with that there's the "quality" of a relationship:
is it a critique submitted for paper Y?
is it a notice of retraction for paper Y?
a correction (addendum or errata list) for paper Y?
a counter to paper Y? (Mrrss. C & D disagree with Mrrss A & B and write a paper arguing their point)
a metastudy or summary of papers X1, X2 & X3?
...
All this can be collected as metadata and inter-document links, but visualization aids are lacking but useful IMO. I'm not the only one who's not always harp as a tack when it comes to doublechecking whether published stuff is disputed or under scrutiny somehow elsewhere. Sniffer could help there in metadata collecting perhaps, but the viz of it all is also a point of interest.
Qiqqa Sniffer supports looking for papers at various sites (including the notorious Google Scholar).
What Qiqqa does NOT yet help with is discovering whether papers are subject to:
There's a bunch of others whos names I cannot recall right now, but findings, fun, fraud and funding all start with a 'f'. And I would dearly have those relationships marked up more easily in Qiqqa.
This is a feature request related to an overarching functionality that's not very big in Qiqqa now: document relations: type / quality: Qiqqa does, by design, automatically detect and prevent polluting a library with pure duplicates, but:
are my X documents I have here:
and with that there's the "quality" of a relationship:
All this can be collected as metadata and inter-document links, but visualization aids are lacking but useful IMO. I'm not the only one who's not always harp as a tack when it comes to doublechecking whether published stuff is disputed or under scrutiny somehow elsewhere. Sniffer could help there in metadata collecting perhaps, but the viz of it all is also a point of interest.
References / Sites of Interest