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PubMed Commons is a new system that enables researchers to share their opinions about scientific publications indexed in the PubMed database. Participation in PubMed Commons requires users with My NCBI accounts to join before they can view or add comments.
As of November 1, 2013, there are about 1,000 people signed up in the Commons and in just four days of public access the amount of comments on PubMed records doubled to over 200.
Approximately a third of the first ~200 comments included critique or pointed to other studies or reviews with the potential to change people’s interpretations or conclusions. Some authors posted corrections or changed their own conclusions in the light of others’ subsequent work. Authors also used PubMed Commons to update people on their work – including links to databases that have moved, providing contextual information and backstories as well as new, relevant work.
Many PubMed Commons participants took the opportunity to add links to relevant papers and data, sometimes in the non-PubMed academic literature or data repositories – including complete datasets, data re-analyses, blog posts and full text pre-prints of the article.
Around half of the comments were principally discussion, developing lines of thoughts and raising or asking questions and there has already been some interesting back and forth between PubMed Commons participants interested in an issue and authors of the PubMed records.
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