Can We Trust Peer-Reviewed Research? | Building A Credit Score For Science With Nicole Kargin
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How can we determine whether published research is methodologically sound and likely to be true? Can we trust every peer-reviewed article we read? Joining us to share her thoughts on this complex topic is Nicole Kargin, the founder of ResearchDoc AI.
Nicole attends the University of Austin, a startup university where she is currently a sophomore and a member of the founding class. There, she launched ResearchDoc AI, a company built on the belief that the global replication crisis is a direct result of a broken scientific publication system – and that AI-powered quality assessment can help solve it…
This conversation covers:
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What makes ResearchDoc AI the "credit score" of academic publications.
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How citations can create the illusion of credibility.
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Problems associated with the current peer-review process.
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How to overcome the replication crisis.
Follow along with Nicole and her work on LinkedIn, Twitter, and the Research Doc AI website!
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| 0:37.4 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. |
| 0:41.1 | My guest today is Nicole Kargan. |
| 0:42.8 | She's a founder of Research Doc AI. |
| 0:45.6 | We want to talk about how to determine whether published research is methodologically sound |
| 0:49.8 | and likely to be true. |
| 0:50.9 | And I guess, you know, you would never suspect that there's scientific papers, |
| 0:55.2 | I'm sure, being written by AI and all kinds of garbage that gets into the peer review system and |
| 1:00.4 | somehow makes it through. So this should be very interesting. So welcome Nicole. Yeah, thanks for |
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