A reproducability study on: 'Should I Follow the Crowd? A Probabilistic Analysis of the Effectiveness of Popularity in Recommender Systems' by R. Cañamares & P. Castells

This paper reviews the experimental setup, experiments, and results of a study by Cañamares and Castells. The original paper focuses on the overarching question of whether popularity is an unwanted bias or a valuable signal in the context of recommender systems. The findings were largely confirmed, but shortcomings in documentation and reproducibility were identified