Publons
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Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Publons canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2979461 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Publons Context triple: [Clarivate Analytics, owns, Publons]
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A.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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B.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible academic search engine that indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and formats, helping researchers find articles, theses, books, conference papers, and more.
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C.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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D.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is a global analytics company specializing in providing research, citation, patent, and intellectual property data and tools for academia, corporations, and governments.
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E.
ORCID
ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Publons Target entity description: Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
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A.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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B.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible academic search engine that indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and formats, helping researchers find articles, theses, books, conference papers, and more.
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C.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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D.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is a global analytics company specializing in providing research, citation, patent, and intellectual property data and tools for academia, corporations, and governments.
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E.
ORCID
ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online platform
ⓘ
peer review tracking platform ⓘ researcher profiling service ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Clarivate Analytics ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| businessModel |
B2B services for publishers and institutions
ⓘ
free profiles for individual researchers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| dataType |
citation and publication links
ⓘ
editorial roles ⓘ peer review records ⓘ |
| feature |
ORCID integration
ⓘ
editorial board and editor role tracking ⓘ integration with journal submission systems ⓘ peer review record tracking ⓘ public and private review records ⓘ researcher profiles ⓘ reviewer recognition metrics ⓘ verification of peer review for journals ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
editorial contributions
ⓘ
peer review ⓘ researcher recognition ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Andrew Preston
ⓘ
Daniel Johnston ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Wellington, New Zealand ⓘ |
| inception | 2012 ⓘ |
| industry |
academic publishing
ⓘ
scholarly communication ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
ORCID
ⓘ
Web of Science ⓘ journal editorial management systems ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Web of Science
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surface form:
Web of Science Researcher Profiles
|
| name | Publons self-link ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Clarivate Analytics
ⓘ
surface form:
Clarivate
|
| operator | Clarivate Analytics ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Clarivate Analytics
ⓘ
surface form:
Clarivate
|
| purpose |
to showcase peer review and editorial work
ⓘ
to track researchers’ peer review activities ⓘ to verify peer review and editorial contributions ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
editorial board service
ⓘ
journal peer review ⓘ manuscript handling by editors ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
journal editors
ⓘ
peer reviewers ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| website | https://publons.com ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Publons Description of subject: Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.