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{{Infobox website
| name = PhysicsOverflow
| logo = File:PhysicsOverflow Logo.svg
| url = {{Official URL}}
| commercial = No
| registration = Optional
| type = [[Question and answer website|Question and answer]]<br>[[Scholarly peer review#Postpublication|Open peer review]]
| owner = Roger Cattin<ref name="physicsoverflow_legal">{{cite web |title = Legal |url = http://whois.domaintools.com/physicsoverflow.org |publisher = Roger Cattin|date = 2014-01-28 |
| author = Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir, Rahel Knoepfel and Roger Cattin
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| content_license = User contributions under [[Creative Commons license|CC BY-SA]] 3.0<ref name="faq"/> }}
'''PhysicsOverflow''' is a [[physics]] website that serves as a [[Scholarly peer review#Postpublication|post-publication open peer review]]<ref name="faq">{{cite web|url=https://physicsoverflow.org/faq|title=FAQ - PhysicsOverflow|website=physicsoverflow.org|access-date=2017-03-19|archive-date=2017-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320054011/https://physicsoverflow.org/faq|url-status=live}}</ref> platform for [[academic paper|research papers]] in physics, as well as a [[collaborative blog]] and [[online community]] of physicists. It allows users to ask, answer and comment on graduate-level physics questions, post and review manuscripts from [[ArXiv]] (which lists PhysicsOverflow discussion pages among its trackbacks<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physicsoverflow.org/30425|title=We have ArXiV trackbacks!|last=dimension10|date=23 April 2015|website=PhysicsOverflow}}</ref>) and other sources, and vote on both forms of content.
In addition to the two primary forms of content, the PhysicsOverflow community also welcomes discussions on [[List of unsolved problems in physics|unsolved problems]], and hosts a chat section for discussions on topics generally of interest to physicists and students of physics, such as those related to recent events in physics, physics academia, and the publishing process.<ref name="faq"/>
==History==
PhysicsOverflow was started in April 2014 as a physics-equivalent of [[MathOverflow]] by Rahel Knöpfel, a physics PhD at the [[University of Rostock]], high-school student Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir, and Roger Cattin, a retired professor of computer science at the [[Fachhochschule|University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland]].<ref name="faq"/> The site was initially a mere question-and-answer forum, as it was started by users dissatisfied by the policies of the [[Stack Exchange|Physics Stack Exchange]], but it was eventually expanded to include a ''Reviews'' section in October 2014.
==Moderation practices==
PhysicsOverflow is well-known for its liberal moderation policy and hesitation to block contributors except for spam, as reflected in the website's bill of "user rights".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6196/what-is-physics-overflow-and-how-is-it-linked-to-physics-se|title=What is Physics Overflow and how is it linked to Physics.SE?|website=Physics Meta Stack Exchange|access-date=2017-03-19|archive-date=2017-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320053801/https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6196/what-is-physics-overflow-and-how-is-it-linked-to-physics-se|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="physicsoverflow.org">{{cite web|url=https://physicsoverflow.org/user-rights|title=User Rights - PhysicsOverflow|website=physicsoverflow.org|access-date=2017-03-19|archive-date=2017-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320053816/https://physicsoverflow.org/user-rights|url-status=live}}</ref> The content is largely community-moderated, much like MathOverflow, although exceptions have been recorded.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physicsoverflow.org/31863|title=Violation of policy to close questions?|last1=drake|last2=Dilaton|last3=dimension10|date=10 June 2015|website=PhysicsOverflow|access-date=19 March 2017|archive-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017221054/http://www.physicsoverflow.org/31863|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="https://physicsoverflow.org/review">{{Cite web | url=https://physicsoverflow.org/review |
Although the site's moderation policy is publicly available as part of the moderator manual, the site has been criticised for the excessive dispersion of policy-related material, such as the FAQ, the Bill of Rights, the moderator list and the Community Moderation threads, leading to reduced transparency.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6196/what-is-physics-overflow-and-how-is-it-linked-to-physics-se|title=What is Physics Overflow and how is it linked to Physics.SE?|website=Physics Meta Stack Exchange|access-date=2017-03-19|archive-date=2017-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320053801/https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6196/what-is-physics-overflow-and-how-is-it-linked-to-physics-se|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://physicsoverflow.org/22268|title=Who are the Physics Overflow moderators, and what is their exact role and powers?|last1=SaddlePoint|last2=Dilaton|first3=Ron|last3=Maimon|date=14 August 2014|website=PhysicsOverflow}}</ref> In response, the site's administrators posted a bulletin of all moderation-related content on the site on the homepage.
==Technical details==
[[File:PhysicsOverflow Discus.svg|thumb|right|The PhysicsOverflow [[discus]] as it appears in the PhysicsOverflow logo.]]
PhysicsOverflow runs [[Q&A software#Comparison of Q&A software|Question2Answer]], an open-source Q&A software, with a custom theme and several plugins and patches.<ref name="faq"/> Some of its plugins have been used by other Question2Answer websites, such as the Open Science Q&A and the Physics Problems Q&A.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://openscience.uni-bielefeld.de/768/how-do-i-regain-access-to-my-imported-account|title=How do I regain access to my imported account? - Ask Open Science|website=openscience.uni-bielefeld.de|access-date=2017-03-19|archive-date=2017-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320052546/https://openscience.uni-bielefeld.de/768/how-do-i-regain-access-to-my-imported-account|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.de/author/christopher_schwarzkopf/|title=Christopher Schwarzkopf – Wikimedia Deutschland Blog|
==Usage==
[[Quantcast]] records around 3000 monthly visitors and between 20,000 and 50,000 global page views to PhysicsOverflow every month, over half of whom are located in four countries: the United States (26.8%), India (9.2%), the United Kingdom (8.5%), and Germany (6.4%).
==Recognition==
The creation of PhysicsOverflow was well-received by the [[MathOverflow]] community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1608/physicsoverflow-just-went-live|title=PhysicsOverflow just went live|website=MathOverflow Meta|access-date=2023-06-10|archive-date=2021-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925025455/https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1608/physicsoverflow-just-went-live|url-status=live}}</ref> PhysicsOverflow was also featured at the 5th Offtopicarium<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physicsoverflow.org/22788|title=We have a talk at the Offtopicarium !|last=Dilaton|date=24 August 2014|website=PhysicsOverflow}}</ref> and [[World Scientific]]'s Asia-Pacific Physics News Letter.<ref>{{cite journal|title=PhysicsOverflow: A postgraduate-level physics Q&A site and open peer review system|first1=Abhimanyu|last1=Pallavi Sudhir|first2=Rahel|last2=Knöpfel|date=23 October 2015
* [[John Baez]] suggested the website as a platform for discussing research-level physics questions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html|title=books|website=math.ucr.edu|access-date=2017-03-19|archive-date=2019-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726010538/http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Greg Bernhardt, the founder of
* Arnold Neumaier, a professor at the University of Vienna, employs PhysicsOverflow as the platform for discussion about his Theoretical Physics FAQ.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/physfaq/physics-faq.html|title=A theoretical physics FAQ|website=www.mat.univie.ac.at|access-date=2023-06-10|archive-date=2023-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526045935/https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/physfaq/physics-faq.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* String theorist [[Lubos Motl]] referred to the website as a "very promising competition [to Physics Stack Exchange]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://motls.blogspot.com/2014/05/physics-overflow-is-live.html|title=Physics Overflow is live|
* [[Urs Schreiber]] publicised the site, claiming it could act as a catalyst to make physics academia more open like mathematics.<ref>{{cite web|url=
▲* [[Urs Schreiber]] publicised the site, claiming it could act as a catalyst to make physics academia more open like mathematics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190202090712/https://plus.google.com/+UrsSchreiber/posts/SoWhSAqmUJ1?loc=us|title=New PhysicsOverflow forum for research-level physics discussion A new site ...|date=2 February 2019|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.quora.com/Whats-your-impression-of-PhysicsOverflow/answer/Sebastian-Schacher|title=Sebastian Schacher's answer to What's your impression of PhysicsOverflow? - Quora|website=www.quora.com}}</ref>
==See also==
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