Associating Papers with GCN Circulars

[jracusin]

Description

It would be useful to have a way to formally associate journal articles with the final analysis presented preliminarily in GCN Circulars.

Acceptance criteria

This could either be implemented by authors requesting a revision with a mention pointing to the paper, or some sort of database that is populated with user-specified or automatically associated papers.

[lpsinger]

We could probably just query ADS for papers that cite a given Circular.

[dmalesani]

Hello. Thanks for opening this issue.

An ADS query would be already a good tool, though there is a distinction between all papers that use those data, and papers from the GCN authors that actually update/refine (even correct) the GCN findings.

[lpsinger]

I think in all those cases it would be best practice for the paper to cite the Circular.

[dmalesani]

Or course, and I think we all do. But, if a user starts from the GCN, they won't necessarily know of the paper. The idea was to build in a direct link between GCN and paper (a link that the paper authors need to establish, but it could be interesting for GCN to naturally support it).