This paper is pretty weak. Sorry to bust the AI hype train on this but collecting the refractive index of compounds a bunch of wavelengths is completely possible, but not revolutionary. I did it at a job, and so have my friends. In some ways RI based measures are harder to take then raman measures. Classification based on RI is also nothing new....
Also... There's some pretty serious challenges with using other people's data rather then actual data collected from a single instrument. Yes RI is a physical thing, but taking those measurements across many wavelengths involves error, sometimes instrument dependent error.
I won't bother looking at the code because neither the abstract nor the results particularly interest me as someone trained in this field(notably the author doesn't seem to be). Some part of me does wonder how they ran this experiment without testing on training data. happens all the time with newcomers. Again not that the claim is unbelievable, it is, it's just it is a worry given the premises posed in the paper itself. A symptom that this is probably low quality is that it's not published in a journal where peers who are interested in or trained to actually review this. Yes believe it or not there are 5 or some odd journals wayyy better suited for this kind of publication. Almost worry it was rejected elsewhere before landing in a p chem journal because... It doesn't seem very good, new, well written, or useful.
Also... There's some pretty serious challenges with using other people's data rather then actual data collected from a single instrument. Yes RI is a physical thing, but taking those measurements across many wavelengths involves error, sometimes instrument dependent error.
I won't bother looking at the code because neither the abstract nor the results particularly interest me as someone trained in this field(notably the author doesn't seem to be). Some part of me does wonder how they ran this experiment without testing on training data. happens all the time with newcomers. Again not that the claim is unbelievable, it is, it's just it is a worry given the premises posed in the paper itself. A symptom that this is probably low quality is that it's not published in a journal where peers who are interested in or trained to actually review this. Yes believe it or not there are 5 or some odd journals wayyy better suited for this kind of publication. Almost worry it was rejected elsewhere before landing in a p chem journal because... It doesn't seem very good, new, well written, or useful.