So, if an academic paper is published in an open journal by an average citizen with an obsession for learning from online sources. So, there are no credentials but a decent work history. A prestigious college downloads the paper. What are the possible reasons?
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ganymede@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 310d
without further context, i'm not sure you could read much into a single act of downloading
it could be as simple as it contained some keywords for a lit review someone was doing
from there they might eliminate it from their review, choose to cite it favourably, or choose to criticise it.
if the journal has a good reputation, being a comparatively frequently read (downloaded) paper from a periodical could be considered a positive reception.
Farmdude@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d
Futher context. It's an alternative to the standard model that seems to fit the planke data with two fewer parameters. This would need to be validated by numerous cosmologists, I would suppose. The cosmologists eho downloaded it does publish papers regarding alternatives to DM and DE. Some similarities, but the independent researcher has a vastly different model to the standard. It's a fresh hypothesis. Not a tweak. By reading the cosmologists papers, I would wager it's fits his work. The missing structure of it all. Or it's nothing.