Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to the Future Tech podcast. I'm Alan Thomas. And today I have Courtney Morris

with me, co-founder of artifacts. How you doing, Courtney? I'm doing very well. Nice to talk to you today.

Oh, cool. Cool. Let's get right into it. Tell us about artifacts. Who are you and what do you do?

Well, there's five of us who co-founded artifacts and we're kind of veterans in the broader

information and analytic space.

We spent a lot of time at Thompson Reuters, where we had all worked together at some point.

And we had identified during that time some issues in the scholarly communication space,

so publishing and the publishing process.

These are, you know,

relatively well known in the industry from reputation and recognition, research integrity,

peer review, reproducibility, you know, length of time, things like that. And because we had

also worked with Gene Garfield, who is considered the kind of the father, the godfather,

bibliometric. We had a certain appreciation for citations and how researchers use citations.

Citations is the currency of the industry. You know, they kind of pay it forward. They give

citation whose work they've levered. And, you know, so we're kind of coming at it

from that angle, but we thought that in today's world with new technology, there's a lot of things

that we could improve. So we founded artifacts to try to do a couple of them. And how long has the

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