Over 40,000 peer reviews for Taylor and Francis have been tracked after a successful pilot  

LONDON and OXFORD, England, March 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the peer review platform Publons announced an extended partnership with Taylor & Francis following a successful pilot. Through Publons' Reviewer Recognition Service, they will provide automated recognition to peer reviewers for up to 250 academic journals.

To-date, more than 18,500 peer reviewers have used the Publons platform to track over 58,000 peer reviews for Taylor & Francis journals. Over 70% of these reviews were added following the announcement of a 30-journal pilot in April 2017, showing remarkable engagement and demand for the service from the research community.

With the expanded partnership, up to 250 Taylor & Francis journals will offer peer reviewers verified and actionable evidence of their past and present peer review contributions to research. Evidence of previous work can be downloaded from their Publons profile and used as evidence of their service and standing for promotion and funding applications.

Leon Heward-Mills, Global Publishing Director at Taylor & Francis, said: "Publons harnesses the power of peer review, giving reviewers the opportunity to get credit for their crucial contributions to research, and at the same time helps journal editors recognize peer review activity on their journals. Our extended partnership this year means even more journals will benefit from the innovative technology Publons provides."

Andrew Preston, Co-founder, Publons: "Our expanded partnership with Taylor & Francis highlights that the community wants recognition for peer review.  We know that reviewers are keen for the service, and publishers want to provide a better reviewing experience. This partnership further signals the broader sea change in scholarly communication — the community is paying greater attention to research outputs that bring about better research outcomes, such as peer review."

Publons mission is to speed up research by harnessing the power of great peer review. By working with publishers, institutions, and researchers, Publons is turning peer review into a measurable output that  can be used to demonstrate a researcher's standing, impact, and influence in their field.

For more details on the partnership and to see a list of participating journals, visit the Taylor & Francis-Publons partnership page (https://publons.com/in/tandf/).

About Publons
Publons works with researchers, publishers and research institutions to speed up science and research by harnessing the power of peer review. Publons Reviewer Recognition Service integrates with journals' review submission systems to offer researchers evidence of their previously-hidden review contributions. Publons, founded in 2013 and now part of Clarivate Analytics, has offices in Wellington, New Zealand and London, UK. For more information, please visit: publons.com.

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About Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, and Technology and Medicine. From their network of offices in Oxford, New York, Philadelphia, Boca Raton, Boston, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Cape Town, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to their editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to their library colleagues.

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