Earlier this week Times Higher Education (THE) published a very interesting piece called Should post-publication peer review be anonymous? It takes the form of an exchange of open letters between the ...

Since launching in 2012, the website PubPeer has become a hub for post-publication peer review — often via anonymous posts. More than 35,000 comments have been posted so far and in the process the ...

PubPeer’s website is just the most recent example of the value of anonymity. It was launched in 2012 by a group of scientists who felt that the merits of scientific research should be discussed openly ...

How do you avoid personalizing a website based on critiquing scientific research (or risking professional retaliation for it)? Remain anonymous. That’s what the creators of PubPeer have done for about ...

We are the founders of PubPeer.com, an online forum for scientific discussion of research scholarship. We and many of the users of our website are anonymous. That anonymity is important for free ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Restaurants, movies, plumbers -- the internet can be used to crowdsource reviews of just about ...

“We are disappointed with the ruling and are weighing our options for how to continue to fight for the right to anonymity of PubPeer’s commenters,” Alexander Abdo, PubPeer’s attorney, told Retraction ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Last month, an anonymous PubPeer user posted one of the paper’s Western blot images on the site. Study coauthor Angelo Vescovi, a biologist at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy, responded right ...

Principal Investigator Pledges 'Responsible Action' as SNU Research Integrity Committee Investigation Is Underway The image on the left is from a 2002 *Cell* paper, and the one on the right is from a ...

The ACLU filed a motion in Michigan state court challenging the constitutionality of a subpoena issued to the website PubPeer demanding that it turn over the identities of anonymous commenters. In ...