ETHER
How ETHER ranks papers with transparent, user-defined signal weights.
ETHER does not decide whether a paper is good. It ranks papers according to the topic and priority signals defined by the user.
Does the title, abstract, and metadata match the radar query set?
Recent papers can receive a boost, with decay over time.
Rapidly cited papers can rise when citation metadata is available.
Matched terms from the signal profile increase score according to category weights.
Journal, preprint server, DOI, PMID, and source metadata can influence filtering and ranking.
Users decide whether methods, clinical relevance, datasets, reviews, or recency matter most.
Negative keywords, broad-topic penalties, duplicate penalties, and review penalties reduce noise.
Each paper says why it ranked highly: strong topic match, recent publication, code/data availability, prioritized source, watched author or institution, or membership in a growing topic cluster.