Publons, Researchers and Products by turpsy

steemstem · @turpsy · Dec 22 '17

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Publons, Researchers and Products

## Introduction
#### In the art of publishing research articles, peer-review is as important as the air we breathe.
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#### While checking my twitter page yesterday, I came across a tweet by a professor whom I am following. 
https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/943098627731460098
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513836971/f0gavgjnwgzjkjxfugst.png)
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#### Having no idea that such service exists, I decided to read further to be sure I gained as much knowledge as possible. Discussion started on it and after a few response, and checking Publons mission (https://publons.com/about/mission), I concluded that Publons might be a good and excellent service to motivating reviewers and thereby solving issues of delayed review of submitted manuscripts. 

![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513844517/mxf0wykba61zwxrhdeqg.png)

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#### Having been familiar with the scientific and peer-review space, I could agree that metric can easily be obtained in a subtle way from researchers,  reviewers and then commercialized. Example, the frequency, time of acceptance of Invitation to review a manuscript can be tracked, the countries of reviewers, discipline, gender and acceptance rate of reviewers can be documented, statistically analyzed and then commercialized.
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#### However,  accessing the peer-reviewed articles that are mostly in  Q1, Q2, or Q3 journals are based on subscription. This means you cannot access many without payment. 
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513842215/hrvlfjotug4th9naysep.png)
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513842263/ipjshhuihpkfgmyjao4j.png)
[Source](http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1000&page=1&total_saverage)

#### On the minimal average, a journal article costs 28 usd
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513838111/szozrax66btrr7fbbtaf.png)
[Source](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572665714001362)
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513838026/ul84if5vhuejhx1nomae.png)
[Source](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp906328z)
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#### This translates to a decisive caging of outstanding research that might be relevant to the general scientific community in different countries around the globe. It is not far from the truth, that while institutions have a subscription to journals/ publishing houses, they cannot subscribe to all. More worrisome in developing countries, whose research are meagrely funded. This summarises to a setback in catching up with recent findings in their field. 
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![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513844909/upk9qrqrbt0vwkjsq0fp.png)

#### The argument here "Publons is a free service which makes the users the actual product." really makes me think Publons might be poised to profitting off researchers, who offer such services, through divulging such researchers' information. This is based on the fact that Publons is part of Clarivate Analytics.
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513838680/nvpdnuamtbix2abbcrfv.png)
[Source](https://publons.com/home)
#### This means there can be transfer and cross-pollination of users' data and information between Publons and Clarivate analytics while the researchers/reviews/editors are turned to the product.
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513839571/naxrovxgjrvvo1nw1o0s.png)
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarivate_Analytics)
#### However, Clarivate analytics has not updated their "about us" to reflect the partnership with Publons
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513839653/tgdg5r6d5lkuuml5mxdp.png)
[Source](https://clarivate.com/about-us/what-we-do/)
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## Publons response
![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513840483/zn5gfqkrinz0cccgjfy5.png)
#### In as much, as I will like to benefit from the service being rendered by Publons; getting credit for reviewing an article before publication, It will be a manipulative, disservice and false help if such are then used to turn their subscribers into products.

## My worry
#### If a lot of organizations and bodies are quick to profit from scientific researches as well as the researchers, why do we have scientific articles being premiumed and made inaccessible for the most part of the developing nations? Knowing fully well that 40 usd is some workers' monthly pay. 

Share your thought, I want to learn from you.
Thanks.
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Uncited images are from https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/943098627731460098.
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@sweetestglo-eu · Dec 22 '17

$0.05

It's  quite unfortunate that some people would want to rip some people off their money, I tried to make a research so I can post, a scientific research and I was asked to pay 35dollars for membership fee.. mehn I got tired and just moved on.. It's appalling knowing fully well that most of these sites are being visited by citizens of under developed and developing countries, where the dollar rates to their local cureency is freaking high. I just hope something can be done to this.

👍 turpsy

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@turpsy · Dec 22 '17

I am happy you quite understand how these publishing houses make knowledge hard to get, by people of all nations. Basically to do research one needs more than one or two references. As much as 50. Imagine paying 35usdx50 articles.  Anyway, sooner all would be open access.

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@lemouth · Dec 22 '17 (edited)

I am happy to say that in high-energy physics we have things like the [arxiv](www.arxiv.org) since the 1990s (so that all articles are available for free even before being submitted to a journal), [Inspire](inspirehep.net) to track down citations and so on, and last year appeared [scipost](https://scipost.org) where on top of the article, the referee reports are also open access. 

I haven't said it, but thanks to a united effort from the research institutes of all over the planet, all our major journals are open access (see the [scoap3](https://scoap3.org/) project).

Concerning publons, I am not on it. The fact that it is connected with a commercial company... So for the moment I pass :)

<br />

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@turpsy · Dec 22 '17

Thank you Prof @lemouth. I  am kind of surprised that there exist such for high energy physics. That is a valuable information.I basically have to download research articles at school. When I am home, I cant do such. Even I cant access scifinder outside my school network. I do help myself by getting as much related research articles as possible when I am on my school  internet network.

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@lemouth · Dec 22 '17

I personally only publish in open access journals, and I am planning to start refusing writing referee reports for non-open-access journals too. Science evolves :)

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