The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched a formal partnership with Publons - a third-party reviewer recognition service - for a twelve-month trial on ten RSC journals.
Publons is a service that reviewers can sign up for and record their peer review history, as a way of 'getting credit for peer review'. Reviewers can use it to track and verify their peer review activity. The aim is to speed up research by harnessing the power of great peer review, working with publishers, institutions and researchers to turn peer review into a measurable output that can be used to demonstrate a researcher's standing, impact and influence in their field.
Reviewers will now be able to track their verified peer review activity across all participating publishers and journals, which is recorded all in one place and updated automatically; view and download their up-to-date reviewer record at any time; get more recognition for the reviews they complete; choose to be notified when an article they reviewed is published, so they can see the outcome of their peer review; and have the option to link their record to their ORCID account to show their publication and peer review activity together.
Publons provides verified credit for peer review without compromising reviewer anonymity or infringing upon journal review models. By default, only the year of the review and the journal title will be shown on reviewer profiles.
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