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That would be an even better article if it linked to the original research for those items.

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The original article does have links - not necessarily to the research itself, but still much better than this one.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/dec/27/na-50-things/news-me...

Much better link. Bolding has such a big impact in these types of lists.

Great find, maybe the submitter can change the link ?

Wasn't that hard - if you follow the http://www.tampatrib.com link at the bottom of the original article, it's staring you right in the face.

There are also similar articles back to 2005, which might be good to see whether the items that the Tribune picked turned out to be important or not.

Ah, yes, now I see it. Weird though how they actually had that information and then decided to leave it out of the article, that's a serious devaluation for no good reason at all.

Wouldn't that be a cool firefox plugin? Highlight text and click "Find Original Research." Opens a new tab/window and shows search result for key terms.

That would be very neat indeed, the problem would be to figure out what the 'original research' was in the midst of lots of fluff around it. Plenty of times articles will be 10% citations from the original but ranking higher in google because they don't link to the original stuff but do get linked themselves.

If you could crack that though it would be awesome.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls...

How many of those would put you close enough to the original research that you wouldn't care to dig deeper?

Probably the easiest would be to work with a blacklist for 'popular' science publications and blogs, and a whitelist for places where original research would be published.

The 'elsevier' link would be the only one left from that page then, and that's the real deal.

This starts to look like it is a really nice weekend project.

Anybody have experience with writing browser plug ins ?

Greasemonkey script even maybe ?

Or use http://scholar.google.com/

But what's the fun in that? I was thinking about streamlining the process.

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