Informations and FAQ about Science-advisor

Access to relevant information: the quantity of research reports and articles has been increasing enormously during the last decades. Hence, there is a need to help researchers to find scientific articles that are interesting for their work. Short comments and discussion forums help researchers to get essential information about these articles.

Exchange of knowledge: Science-advisor.net stores the experience accumulated by researchers during years of reading articles. Thanks to Science-advisor.net, this knowledge is no more lost when they leave their job. This is especially useful to young researchers or to researchers who start working in a new field. One of the goal of Science-advisor.net is to store all these "little" thoughts and remarks that are usually exchanged during conferences or by email and then lost.

Dynamical and self-consistent evaluation: Science-advisor.net offers to the community of scientific researchers a new evaluation method. Since anyone can be reviewer of Science-advisor.net, the community of researchers control itself which article will have a good rating. The evaluation of articles is now a dynamical and self-consistent process among researchers where reviews are submitted to evaluation as well.

A daily working tool: each article has its own forum or discussion page. Hence, researchers or students can anonymously post their questions to the commnunity interested by a particular article or field. "Stupid" questions are welcome... Questions are no more restricted to authors like in standard databases.

Fast search : performance the search engine is very high and allow complex queries.

Access directly to the best articles and save working time by reading comments from reviewers.

When you post your question or comment, the author will be alerted along with all users that are interested by the same article.

You cannot ask freely and anonymously questions about papers.

You are immediately informed when a review or a question is posted on one of your favorite articles.

It is possible for you to access your own reviews and forum messages at any time. Science-advisor.net provides therefore an efficient tool to organize your scientific work.

If you were referee for an article published in a peer-reviewed journal, you can publish here your comments on that papers and make it available for the others. This is a single opportunity to add value to your referee work.

All forum messages, reviews are in free access, and this will remain so. All messages remain under joined copyright of authors and Science-advisor.net.

The Science-advisor.net server is owned by a small swiss company Scimetrica active in science management. The server is independent of any archive or any institution. Any change to this status will give authors the opportunity to review or retire their submissions.

There is an advisory board that is not public: reviewers and users are supposed to control and correct themselves the content of the forum as they can rate and comment reviews of other users. Send reclamations to the administrator only in case of spam or injurious postings.

Avoid to open several user accounts at the same time.

It is forbidden to comment your own articles.

Undiscriminated download from this site is not permitted.

Rankings are not absolute! It is only possible to compare similar articles in the same research area. It is often preferable to consider ranking as an indicator rather than an absolute measure of the quality. For example, a review cannot have the maximum rank since it rarely reports new facts. However, there are excellent reviews!

All personal data are confidential and will never be transmitted to anyone outside Science-advisor.

Passwords of users are encrypted with sha1 keys of 160 bits.

If you choose to display your email, it will be protected against spammers.