PubPeer has released browser plugins that add a line to PubMed results if there are comments on PubPeer for those publications. It looks like the example above. The install took less than 10 seconds.
You can now post comments on PubPeer completely anonymously. Not even a login is required.
PubPeer has always allowed anonymous comments, but it used to be that you had to log in, so the…
PubPeer, a site for anonymous (or non-anonymous), post-publication peer review is taking off nicely. Traffic is increasing to the site and there are a lot of interesting comments, including both detailed commentary…
Scientific publishing is essentially a solved problem.
Research dissemination is almost free. For hundreds of years, humankind relied on printed material and postage or shipping to share their work. That…
Colby Vorland coded this Chrome plugin called Lazy Scholar to make it easier to find full text versions of papers. It basically cross references a bunch of databases for you, to find information…
PubMed Commons has a search argument you can use to find articles with comments:
has_user_comments
You can click that link to try it yourself.
As of this writing, there are about 650 comments on all of PubMed Commons. I don’t know how this compares…
In the US, the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech protects many insults that can be lobbed at a person. However, a line is crossed into defamation, a civil or criminal…
PubMed has a new feature: you can comment on the papers using PubMed Commons.
PubPeer, the now-defunct Third Reviewer, reference managers, and journals have offered post-publication peer review for a while…
Post publication peer review has yet to really take off, but Labrigger hopes it does. One of the newest sites is PubPeer.
PubPeer does it right, allowing for anonymity. This is important in order…
