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alespierno's bookmarks 2018-02-27

Summary:

[From Google translate] PubMed Commons

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that they had decided to discontinue the PubMed Commons service about five years after its creation. 

This service was introduced with the idea of creating a platform where researchers could freely comment on the indexed contributions in the database and read those of their colleagues (the so-called post publication peer review). 

The NIH decided to terminate the service because it never reached high levels of usage: out of 28 million articles indexed in PubMed, only 7,500 had received comments. As we read in a commentary published on Nature, the poor use of PubMed Commons is perhaps due to the fact that to comment on this platform you had to use your own name while a similar platform, PubPeer collected, in the same period of time, about 54,000 anonymous comments. 

The comments will be visible to everyone until next March 2, after which they can be downloaded directly from the NCBI website.

Link:

https://bibliosan20.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/pubmed-commons/

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Date tagged:

02/27/2018, 04:05

Date published:

02/25/2018, 23:05