Josh Nicholson | Making Citations Smarter
Bio: Josh Nicholson is co-founder and CEO of scite.ai, a deep learning platform that evaluates the reliability of scientific claims by citation analysis. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of the Winnower (acquired 2016) and CEO of Authorea (acquired 2018 by Atypon), two companies aimed at improving how scientists publish and collaborate. He holds a PhD in cell biology from Virginia Tech, where his research focused on the effects of aneuploidy on chromosome segregation in cancer.
Summary: Josh Nicholson is a cell biologist turned applied metascientist — a rare blend of scientist and entrepreneur. He's adept at questioning and debating the problems facing academia (which we did), but he prefers to spend his time building solutions, or as he calls it: DTFE (do the f#%@ing experiment). His current project and company is scite, a smart citation tool. It's like x-ray vision for reading scientific papers.
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Josh explains how The Winnower found success by publishing backstories, science prefaces, and "grey literature" in science. pic.twitter.com/5UMX5Wj2AD
— science better (@scibetter) January 4, 2021
How @scite works by measuring the *quality* of citations, not just the quantity.
— science better (@scibetter) January 4, 2021
Josh gives a product walkthrough of how the browser plugin improves the experience of reviewing scientific literature. pic.twitter.com/KthV7uEjbW
"Our strategy is to go where researchers are..."
— science better (@scibetter) January 4, 2021
Josh shows new product features they're creating with their data. pic.twitter.com/1l1R63RYa1
"That's why we focus on citations... If we can improve them, then we can improve a lot of different things that are core to scholarly communication, which is core to science itself."
— science better (@scibetter) January 4, 2021
- @joshmnicholson (talking about @scite)