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If I wanted to know what the community thought of a particular paper, is there a place where I can find a discussion of it? I thought maybe researchgate was the place, but I usually don't see discussion on the paper submission there. I know sometimes you can find the peer reviewer comments before the paper got published, but what I mean is comments from other scientists.

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Scientists comment on papers by writing papers. For a paper that just appeared, wait a year or so, and check Google Scholar for papers that cite this paper. Check again every few months.

If you know physicists with an interest in this field, you can ask them if they’ve seen the paper and what they think of it. If they have an opinion they’ll probably share it with you freely, but they won’t write it down anywhere.

I created a platform to solve exactly this problem: https://gotit.pub/ Let me know if you have any feedback, always happy to chat!

https://gotit.pub/view/1e023g4l3o6b3t1f1q625c4g

I made a link cause I didn't see one via search

It's an interesting idea for a site.

Feedback: Searching by Topic, Title or arxiv ID would be well augmented by a DOI search, especially for the current post.

As a physicist, no, that's not a thing, at least not that I know of. Beyond whatever you can find from a simple google search is unknown to us

Best you can do is look for papers that cite this paper.

So are the only informal discussions done in person, or via email?

Both I’d say. More recently also online calls/conferences/seminars, and (way more rarely but it happens) on twitter/mastodon/…

Maybe math overflow or physics overflow might work in rare cases... For most papers, I don't think there's really much a layperson can actively do to find out what experts think.

https://pubpeer.com/ but it is hit or miss. It has a browser extension so it'll alert you if it finds URLs to papers with discussions.

physicsforums.com is kind of ok sometimes, though I don't go there myself.

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