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> The current source material used in Consensus comes from the Semantic Scholar database

For people who are familiar with this database, are the papers in it trustworthy?

It's nice to search directly in scienific papers, but only if they're reputable.

I'm not super familiar with them, but taking a quick look it looks like the have a lot of papers published by the Allen Institute in Seattle[0] (which I am much more familiar with). So I would say they at least carry very reputable papers.

Here[1] is a summary of Semantic Scholar Database in the National Library of Medicine (note also from an Allen Institute spinoff, but it just made it easy to search for something I know as reputable).

[0] https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Allen-Institute/21263... [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764585/

Yes, I am a subscriber. They have little icons like “rigorous journal”, “systemic review”, “meta-analysis” and (if you give this any weight) “highly cited”. I believe you can filter by those in your search as well.

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