Talk:Publons

Disputed claim
In the "Reception" section of the article, the following claim was made (I quote the full text from the Editing view):

"Publons initially reached out to academics through unsolicited bulk email to build awareness of the free service. This was cited by email service providers for being violation of acceptable use policies. Publons retired unsolicited emails in 2016 and has since focused on growing its userbase by enabling reviewers to add verified records of their peer review contributions as they are performed."

In an edit just applied to the article, I changed "...initially reached out to..." to "...reaches out to..." and deleted the final sentence, because Publons still sends unsolicited emails. I have received several since 2016, most recently this morning (February 8, 2018).

I take it that my way of handling this is in accord with Wikipedia's policies: in the case of an accuracy dispute, the recommendation is to "correct" the content right away if possible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute). In this case, correction of the article involved removal of the demonstrably false claim (I can easily provide screen captures as evidence if need be, but I was not sure whether they would be appropriate to post here).

I am a novice at editing Wikipedia articles and I am happy to be corrected if I've handled this inappropriately--also, I apologize for the inelegant formatting of this post.

Blorkpuffington (talk) 11:58, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Business Model?
I added a passage on Publon's business model from Publons. It is fairly vague and I think it would be good to expand on this, especially from independent sources. Haven't been able to find anything yet though.Dan Eisenberg (talk) 16:45, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

MDPI
They work together with MDPI so --- unreliable fly-by-nighters. Extreme caution advised.137.205.101.81 (talk) 12:35, 9 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Even worse: they collaborate with OMICS Publishing Group and other predatory publishers. For many of these journals, they uncritically display promotional descriptions provided by said publishers. It's too bad that Clarivate is not more careful and integrated their ResearcherID, which was a useful service, with Publons. I know of people that have requested that their Publons/ResearcherID account be deleted because they don't want to deal with an entity that promotes predatory journals. If somebody knows a reliable source for this, this should be added to the article. --Randykitty (talk) 17:41, 7 March 2021 (UTC)