[goose847]

A really interesting take! Makes scientific papers feel more like a tool rather than an article or book. Certainly nice in the case of Computational work. Also allows the potential for long term projects that get incremented on in what would’ve been separate papers. Additionally if new, relevant information comes to light long after a paper has been published, the authors could reference this to give a more complete story.

[amitness]

Agree. This makes a lot of sense for incremental papers.

[hprotagonist]

“shingling” is the (fairly rude) term of art.

[pbhjpbhj]

I don't know how it's rude, shingling means 'many small roof tiles' to me.

[hprotagonist]

'term of art' means that there's a specific meaning inside a particular sphere of discussion for this term (which has normal sense elsewhere).

To accuse a research group of shingling means that you think that that group releases a lot of papers one after the other which have a lot of overlap between them and back-cite each other-- and that this is done to artificially boost publication count and citation count to make the group look prominent.

[pbhjpbhj]

Cool, thanks, I did a quick search but nothing came up - I assumed it was something scatalogical :o)