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Just a note to say that factoring authors into the ranking system is high on my todo list. v1 won't be too fancy - just a hardcoded list of prominent authors whose papers warrant extra visibility. A future version will likely automate it to avoid the hardcoded list.

Also, soon-ish I'm going to add the ability for users to follow specific authors, so you can get notified when they publish new papers.

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> Also, soon-ish I'm going to add the ability for users to follow specific authors, so you can get notified when they publish new papers.

If you could do it, this would be a dream. My original intent was to be able to look through only papers citing a popular one and filtering the results for ones having at least one author with a set minimum h-index. Using Google Scholar data required using SerpAPI, which has some annoying limitations.

The core goal is obviously just not to miss out on a paper that will very likely be influential while not having to comb through the mountain of irrelevant papers.

What's funny is that Microsoft Academic was the best suited, but was retired in 2021.

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