Digital Tools for Researchers

Evaluate research

New tools are changing the way research in evaluated, both in terms of the scientific value of articles and the overall achievements of researchers. Find under Peer-review, a collection of tools that are changing the peer-review system into a more open and productive process by bypassing journals and editors. Altmetrics are a set of new tools that analyze the impact of you work by other means than impact factor and citations counts.

Peer-review

• Academic Karma – Peer review and get peer reviewed faster.
• F1000 – Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
• Hypothes.is – Sentence-level peer-review to provide commentary, references, and insight on top of online content.
• Journal Review – Rate, and review published medical journal articles.
• Libre – Participative reviewing platform.
• Paper Critics – Review platform for research publications (Mendeley plugin).
• Peerage of Science - Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.
• PeerJ - Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.
• PubPeer – Search for publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
• Publons – Record, showcase, and verify all your peer review activity.
• Pubmed Commons – Share opinions and information about scientific publications in PubMed. (blog post)
• Rubriq – Provides an independent peer review prior to submission. (blog post)
• ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.
• Wiki Journal Club – Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research.
• The Winnower – Open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review.

Altmetrics

• Altmetric – Tracks what people are saying about papers online on behalf of publishers, authors, libraries and institutions.
• ImpactStory – Share the full story of your research impact. (blog post)
• PLOS Article-Level Metrics – A suite of established metrics that measure the overall performance and reach of research articles.
• PlumAnalytics - Research altmetric service tracking more than 20 different types of artifacts.
• Publons – Record, showcase, and verify all your peer review activity.