13.06.2025
PCI webinar series | Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer, 18th of June 2025
« PubPeer was created in 2012 to facilitate the correction of science and accelerate the convergence of ideas through open, public discussion. By focusing on the substance of scientific publications, PubPeer combats the notion that publication is a definitive event establishing the truth of a result and counters the damaging over-reliance on indirect metrics such as journal name, impact factor, or H-index as indicators of correctness and quality. The use of these unreliable indicators has opened the door to gaming of research reputations through questionable and even fraudulent practices; recent years have even seen the arrival of the organised production of fake papers and citations, by so-called papermills. Since its launch, PubPeer has grown to become the reference platform for exposing low-quality research, particularly in cases where the integrity of a publication is in question. (…) »
source > peercommunityin.org, pci-webinar-series, Brandon Stell, 2025
