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Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by w-m »

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help.

I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your profile.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by phreeza »

w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

How would you propose making claiming possible without the risk of hijacking/misrepresentation?

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by Y_Y »

w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

So you've put a fake email address on your papers? As in, one that you can't receive from? Why?

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by fuglede_ »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #3

I remember seeing this idea some years ago. I think it was called qrxiv.org or something like that, but can't find it anymore. I hope this one has better luck, getting the users in the fragmented space of preprints can be a challenge.

There's also https://scirate.com/ which occasionally has active discussions but, at least in my field, there's far from critical mass, and discussions only happen when someone kick starts and advertises a thread.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by chipdart »

Y_Y wrote: post #6
w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

So you've put a fake email address on your papers? As in, one that you can't receive from? Why?

> So you've put a fake email address on your papers?

I think you're failing to understand the basics of the problem, and even the whole problem domain.

Email addresses are not created/maintained for life. You can have an email address, them have your org change name and email provider switch, and not to mention that researchers leave research institutions and thus lose access to their accounts.

You have multiple scenarios where papers can be published with authors using email addresses which they lose access to.

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