Abstract
Publons, a website that lets peer reviewers claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. The new feature lets funders or individuals post on the site when a referee has completed a review for a funder, as long as both parties have agreed to it. To maintain confidentiality, the site records only the number of grant application reviews a person has done and for which funding agency. For journal peer review, Publons also allows researchers to post the content of their reports when journal policies allow it. John Hardy, a materials chemist at Lancaster University, is one of the academics to have logged his grant-reviewing activity on his Publons profile, noting that he has refereed grant proposals for the National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE) in Kazakhstan. Hardy tells C&EN that recording such activity online is useful when trying to convince senior colleagues
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