Open review

The peer review process has a long-standing tradition in improving manuscript quality, in terms of correctness, reasoning, accuracy, balance ... However, it is not infallible, mainly because a single referee can miss out on some mistakes or can introduce some of his own.
On the other hand, as students and scientists we all read papers daily, evaluate and judge them alone, with colleagues, and in journal clubs. Done by many people, some of which domain experts, this process is able to improve a paper's quality beyond what a single referee could achieve. If the joint wisdom of the community could be bundled. This is what PaperRater.org is all about.

Collaborative reading

A lot of papers are written every day. Digesting only the very fraction of your own research domain is challenging, to say the least. Thus, we need tools to organize papers; see what's hot (and what's not); inform friends of papers they might have missed... To make sure we stay ahead of the game.

Get involved

PaperRater.org depends on its users, that is: you. If you have read a paper, share your thoughts with fellow readers, rate the paper according to its value for you, and check what others have thought about it.
If you have suggestions about the website or want to help, join the conversation on Twitter, or contact directly .

More information?

You can read up on the project in the blog. There is also a Getting started guide.