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Thanks Knowledgesale!

I realize the tagging system needs a bit of work, I think especially a follow functionality for tags would be nice. So for example you could follow "antimatter" and have the new papers tagged with "antimatter" automatically come to your activity inbox. It currently works like that for users, papers and comments. So if you follow a user, if that user posts a new paper or comment, you will get an update in the activity inbox in your profile.

Is that similar to what you had in mind?

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Hey, while the subscription feature for new papers sounds like a nice thing, I thought that it can have another useful function.

For example, let us assume that you are starting an exciting new project and need to learn about the most prominent papers in the field of "antimatter". One may expect that there are some classic introductory texts, of very high quality that are obvious to people who have been working in the field for a while but are much less evident to outsiders like you. Googling may not always yield direct recommendation for the best text and you need to consult an expert. There are also some well-known in-depth and concise-but-exact-overview texts you need to know about.

What if there was a voting system on the best review in this specific field? Such a wikipedia of the most important papers in different subfields would be potentially of great use for everyone.

I would love to volunteer for managing of some sections as an experiment if that is of interest to you.

I can see how that would be useful, but I fear it is outside of the context of the site and I'm not sure how it would fit. Comments on Science is supposed to be about comments, not about papers themselves, but I guess the jury's still out on that one. The best I can do, that still fits in the context of the site as it is now, is to have a link where you can list papers tagged with e.g. "antimatter", and order them by score. I'll think about your idea and get back to you on that. I would love to have some help as I am a solo-coder-designer-administrator on the site and it's already proved to be a handful.

Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated.

Edit: I forgot to add a link for a similar site to that you described, but for computer science: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Admittedly, the voting is missing, and it's quite narrow in scope, but my guess is sites like that exist for most fields. Have you not found any for theoretical physics?

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