Sci-Trust
Compare trust among researchers based on their citations
Details
- External ID
- 49375757
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sci-Trust
- Website domain
- uptrusthq.com
- Launched
- Aug. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5309139784946236
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- compare researcher trust by citations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Displaying academic citation graphs in a web UI is standard, but computing custom trust rankings across massive citation networks requires graph algorithms and huge bibliometric datasets.
What it would actually take: Requires ingestion pipelines for massive academic datasets (e.g., OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar) containing hundreds of millions of papers and citations, stored in graph databases like Neo4j or vector/columnar stores. The algorithmic engine requires PageRank-like personalized trust propagation algorithms implemented in Python or Rust with high-performance graph processing libraries (e.g., NetworkX, cuGraph).
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Semantic Scholar, Citation-based rankings, Personalized PageRank
Concerns raised: LLM classification of citations is lossy/imperfect, Citations are imperfect proxy for trust, Whether trust graph actually represents real scientific consensus
Feature requests: Visualize researcher bias and perspective differences, Run analysis on custom datasets, Compare multiple researchers side by side
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 302 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #116 of 303 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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