PubPeer – Einstein Foundation Award

"PubPeer is a widely used online platform for post publication review and legitimate discussion of published scientific data. Founded in 2012, PubPeer set out to accelerate the communication about scientific publications and make correction processes more transparent and efficient. Every article with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) can be commented on PubPeer, allowing readers to contest it or ask questions, which are displayed online after a short moderation delay to check compliance with internal guidelines. Authors can answer and correct their publication, if necessary. PubPeer has become an essential part of the research communication landscape, with over 300,000 comments logged so far. It is estimated that since 2012, 19 percent of all retractions of papers worldwide in all academic domains had a prior discussion on the site.

Beyond identifying flaws and fraud, PubPeer functions as an important tool to jointly improve scientific publications through „liquid feedback“. 

The PubPeer foundation receives €200,000 to further develop the platform...."