PubPeer

Tomas Fiers

2022-04-05

PubPeer seems like a good project and I fully agree with the idea of open comments.

This browser extension works well, but is often a bit annoying: the PubPeer bar at the top of the page appears only after the page has loaded, which causes the page contents to suddenly shift down. This could be fixed by having another indicator (maybe a small fixed-pos sidebar like Scite or Hypothesis do).

Another problem is mentioned by Balázs Knakker below: The PubPeer bar appears and says "There are 2 articles on this page with PubPeer comments" (neither of those comments were particularly enlightening or relevant to article I was quickly checking out). This makes the high saliency of the PubPeer bar not worth it.

Richard Seglenieks

2021-06-24

Seems to be working great! Displays notifications on PubMed, journal websites and search engines. Can click through from the notification to the PubPeer page. Thanks

R. M.

2020-12-11

Random pop-ups on non-pubpeer pages are unacceptable. (got pop-up idk about what on google.com)

Balázs Knakker

2019-12-18

I love and highly appreciate PubPeer, but I find the way the extension works annoying and misguided. In particular, I am not interested in whether cited or linked papers on a page have comments on PubPeer or not. Really, never. I think it would make a lot more sense to just show the top bar if the currently viewed paper has comments on pubpeer. Perhaps comments of linked papers could get a little number in the app's icon, or just could be left out altogether.

Danny Garside

2018-05-07

Lovely idea. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. At all.
Will keep installed, and update review if anything changes.