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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Owner | Clarivate |
| URL | publons |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 3,000,000 |
| Launched | 2012 |
| Current status | Website began redirecting to Web of Science on 18 August 2022 |
Publons was a commercial website that provided a free service for academics to track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals. It was launched in 2012 and was bought by Clarivate in 2017. It claimed that over 3,000,000 researchers joined the site, adding more than one million reviews across 25,000 journals.[1][2][3] In 2019, ResearcherID was integrated with Publons.[4]
Publons produced a verified record of a person's review and editorial activity for journals, which could be downloaded to include in CVs, funding and job applications, and promotion and performance evaluations.[5] Publons' business model was based on partnering with publishers.[6]
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