Evaluating a paper's contributions to the scientific literature is one of the core tasks of peer review.
But how effective is the current system at selecting impactful, innovative work for publication or funding? As we release our new novelty scores feature for over 250 million research articles on DeSci Publish, co-founder and CEO Dr. Philipp Koellinger explains what these scores are, how they are developed, and their potential effect on science.
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