Organic
Community Choice
Community Choice uses recommendation balance: recommend minus would-not-recommend responses.
Ranking definitions
What each ranking measures
PaperVote measures a narrow question: whether readers recommend spending time on a paper.
01Would you recommend that other readers spend time on this paper?
↑ Recommend↓ Would not recommend
02New before rankedPapers with fewer than five responses from distinct reader accounts are labelled New / Unranked. The threshold can change later, but it is always published.
Organic momentum
Trending
Heat responds to recent recommendation activity. A paper needs five responses before receiving a numbered rank.
A recommendation is not a scientific verdict
It does not represent scientific validity, peer review, scientific consensus, citation impact or agreement with a paper’s conclusions.
The fixed separation