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October 8, 2013 12:15 pm GMT

Academic Startup Publons Gives Peer Reviewers Credit For Their Work

Publons_logoThe traditional anonymous peer review process used in academic publishing is meant to ensure objectivity, but it means reviewers give up their time for very little reward. The lack of transparency is also vulnerable to exploitation, which can lead to flawed (if not fraudulent) research making it into prestigious publications. Publons, a platform for post-publication peer review, wants to address these problems by becoming "the Stack Overflow of academic research."

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