80: Cites are not endorsements (with Sean Rife)

We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai, a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work.

Here's what we cover and links for a few things we mention

• What is scite.ai?
• The Winnower
• Why is there no good (and free) plagiarism detector?
• Grobid - A machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring PDFs
• Meta-analysis can prop up flawed bodies of literature
• The "Too meta" XKCD cartoon
• What’s the end game for scite?
• The 80,000 hours game
• Spooner, a utility that allows authors of scientific publications to make their work available to the general public (probably) without violating publishing agreements

Other links

• [Sean on twitter](www.twitter.com/seanrife)
• [Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
• [James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
• [Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
• [Everything Hertz on Facebook](www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/)

Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Episode citation and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, March 18) "Cites are not endorsements", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9EYG

Special Guest: Sean Rife.

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