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Assistant Professor and principal investigator of the Gas Biogeochemistry Lab at @UConnMarineSci; @carabonate.bsky.social; https://t.co/lTEp00xeA3
Mar 15, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
Many journals from @theAGU now display a @scite badge above each article, which claims to quantify how many times subsequent papers 'dispute' and 'support' the article's results.

I'm concerned that the @scite algorithm misidentifies which works are disputed. #AGUpubs 1/ In environmental science, we frequently compare our results with data from another time/place. We perform a literature review of related datasets, and may state that our results "contrast with Zhao et al." @scite often flags this type of phrasing as 'disputing' Zhao's results. 2/