PubPeer
PubPeer is a platform for post-publication peer review, offering an additional layer of evaluation beyond journal names. Empowering the scientific community to assess science and scientists transparently. pubpeer.com
- Reposted by PubPeer#neuroscience I don’t see discussions on BlueSky. It is just a list of mentions of papers.Surely the point of the site is more than that?
- Reposted by PubPeerAfter every encounter with the current scientific publishing system
- Reposted by PubPeerI reviewed a paper recently. It was flawed & rejected. It later appeared unchanged in another journal. So how is peer review a “gold standard”? You can’t have a gold standard if people can’t tell the difference between gold and bauxite..
- Congratulations to Florence Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social for winning the March PubPeer Monthly Prize for her outstanding comment on a 2025 arXiv preprint! 🏆 pubpeer.com/publications... Insightful contributions like this help strengthen the scientific record—thank you!
- Reposted by PubPeerWhile i agree we need to be alert to weaponisation, the threat to put all Sylvain's papers on the #PubPeer site to obtain their retraction is empty. I think we should avoid amplifying this view of PubPeer as some kind of unmoderated site where anyone can make false accusations.
- "Fraud, Blackmail, and the Weaponization of Integrity" We were not aware that this sort of intimidation went on. Shocking | Thank you to @mcintold.bsky.social for highlighting | fosci.substack.com/p/fraud-blac...
- Reposted by PubPeerA Sciences & médias, on est force de solutions. Comme avec cette table ronde : "Junk science et junk journalism : comment sortir de la poubelle ?" On vous a préparé une table ronde de toute beauté, avec :
- Reposted by PubPeer🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
- Announcing the February winner of the $1,000 PubPeer Monthly Prize! Congratulations to Palaquium morobense for their insightful comment: pubpeer.com/publications... This marks our first anonymous winner. To claim the $1,000 prize, contact us using the anonymous login linked to the comment.
- Is there even a small chance this could finally put the issue to rest in the minds of Kennedy et al? Let's hope that the data from this study will be open and the results published in a format that allows for scientific discussion and critique.
- Reposted by PubPeerInterested in how we can tackle the scourge of research fraud? And meeting people in the delightful city of Oxford? Join us at the FAIRS meeting in April - in-person and online options. More details and booking form: www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)
- Reposted by PubPeer⏰ Join an engaging colloquium on scientific integrity, featuring the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners next week! @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied at Charité or online: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
- 📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
- Reposted by PubPeerPutting the prize our Cake Club won for a comment on @pubpeer.com to good use by spending it on.... more cake (and discussing Echenique & He, www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)
- Reposted by PubPeer📢 Coming soon: Season 2 of the Lab Coats & Life™ Podcast! Hear from Dr. Brandon Stell, @pubpeer.com co-founder, Dr. Judy Mielke, @scientifyresearch.org co-founder, Dr. Nokuthula Mchunu, Deputy Director of The National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF), and more this season.
- Ugh.
- A new one to me. Someone offering authorship of a paper in return for posting comments on @pubpeer.com.
- Unfortunately, this remains all too common.
- Other journals like RSC Advances and ACS Applied Energy Materials, alerted of various concerns raised on @pubpeer.com many months ago, are either investigating at snail's pace, or they decided that they have no interest to correct the scientific record. @rsc.org @pubs.acs.org (2/2)
- If scientific assessment shifted from counting publications to expert evaluation of their quality, the tactic of citing junk papers to support bad arguments would lose its power. More open evaluation by the community, more retractions, and fewer metrics would make science harder to hijack.
- More and more authors are engaging with post-publication discussion—offering clarifications, corrections, and insights. Author comments on PubPeer have grown dramatically over the past decade, as shown in the graph below. Scientific dialogue doesn’t end at publication. #ScienceEditorial
- For authors, talking to the media “can be an opportunity to provide the unvarnished truth in response to tough questions,” write @holdenthorp.bsky.social and Meagan Phelan in this week’s #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3EOWJR2
- Reposted by PubPeerThere is an important message today of @holdenthorp.bsky.social & @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social to all scientists who always ignore their @pubpeer.com record: "... the public may take a response of <no comment> as a concession that the critics are correct" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by PubPeer📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
- Congratulations to Vitaly Podzorov for winning the January PubPeer Monthly Prize for his outstanding analysis of a 2024 Nature article! pubpeer.com/publications... These $1,000 awards are given each month. Learn more and see examples of winning comments: pubpeer.com/static/award
- Reposted by PubPeerImportant read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
- Reposted by PubPeerFirst review of my book, DOCTORED: FRAUD, ARROGANCE, AND TRAGEDY IN THE QUEST TO CURE ALZHEIMER’S, to be published Feb 4, out from Publisher’s Weekly: “hard-hitting exposé…troubling look at the corruption of Big Science.” Available for prerelease orders www.publishersweekly.com/9781668031247
- Reposted by PubPeerHat tip to various members of our journal club who contributed to the comment: @grinschglsandra.bsky.social (who wrote the first draft of the comment) @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social @taymalsalti.bsky.social
- Congratulations to @malte.the100.ci for winning the inaugural PubPeer $1000 Monthly Prize for the best comment! December brought many excellent contributions, but Malte's journal club discussion truly stood out. pubpeer.com/publications...
- There’s still time to share your insights and qualify for our first $1,000 award! Add your comment before the end of the month, and stay tuned here to find out who the December winner will be: pubpeer.com/static/award
- Reposted by PubPeerHello, friends. Have you installed the @pubpeer.com plug-in for your browser yet? If not, why not? Bigly recommended if you want to be like Ms Stone, below.
- Reposted by PubPeer19 months and counting: Former Hindawi journal still hasn’t marked paper Featuring @elisabethbik.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @pubpeer.com
- Reposted by PubPeerAnd check @pubpeer.com if you act as reviewer or editor of a manuscript, what I systematically do and recommend…
- Reposted by PubPeerTip of the day: use @pubpeer.com for evaluating a grant application: if an author have a serious issue (it is important to appraise this qualitatively) that has not been addressed (no satisfying answer), do not recommend the application for funding. Wish of the day: funder make this tip mandatory.
- Reposted by PubPeerWe read this paper in our journal club, and found it interesting and an illustrative contribution to statistical education. There were a few points that we think the authors could address to strengthen it. Full summary of our journal club on @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...
- We’re encouraging meaningful commentary with $1,000 rewards for selected PubPeer comments. bsky.app/profile/pubp... Now imagine if @hhmi.bsky.social , NIH, NSF, etc also awarded outstanding public reviews. These could boost careers and CVs while building a vital layer of scientific evaluation.
- Reposted by PubPeerAttention #MedLibs and others running journal clubs! Opportunity to win Cash Money for a valuable post-publication peer review comment on PubPeer.
