https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1509.07805/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130483urn:hackerpapers:mention:1509.07805:14130483Mon, 17 Apr 2017 12:35:20 GMT<p>&gt; From an academic perspective it is worth exactly as much as a blog. From the perspective of peer review, yes. But per google scholar that paper has been 66 cited times, including in many articles that are in at least somewhat reputable journals (published via Elsevier, ieee, Springer, etc) and apparently two books [0]. So I think it&#x27;s pretty clear that being a &quot;scientific paper from Princeton&quot; was significant reputation wise regardless of whether or not it was peer reviewed. [0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Epidemiological%20model... I was also skeptical about the citations so I…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1509.07805/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-ph