PubPeer is a website dedicated to post-publication peer review and scholarly scrutiny. It allows researchers, authors, and readers to comment on scientific papers after they have been published, offering a platform for discussing potential issues such as errors, retracted articles, or image manipulation.
While peer review typically happens before publication, PubPeer serves as a way for the scientific community to continue checking and questioning the validity of research long after a paper is published. It's an essential tool for maintaining the integrity of the scientific record.
You can check out PubPeer here.
After a study is published, anyone—including researchers, students, or even the authors themselves—can anonymously post comments or raise concerns about the paper's validity, methodology, or ethics.
PubPeer can uncover a wide variety of issues, from honest mistakes to more severe instances of scientific misconduct, such as plagiarism, fraud, or image manipulation.
Once flagged, the issues are visible to the wider community, contributing to the ongoing quality control of the scientific literature.
