2026-09-10T10:56:01-07:00 2025-12-31 200570323 Nelson & Associates CPAs 2230 Longport Ct Ste 110 Elk Grove CA 95758 990 2025-01-01 474729597 THE PUBPEER FOUNDATION PUBP 4053966661 2443 FILLMORE ST 380-4492 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94115 BRANDON STELL President 2026-09-10 true Michelle Nelson CPA CFE MST P00453363 9162996800 2025 BRANDON STELL 2443 FILLMORE ST 380-4492 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94115 373105 false X pubpeer.org X 2014 CA In the past year, the Foundation has expanded engagement on PubPeer, increased subscriptions to its dashboard alerting service, and invested in website improvements to enhance tracking and addressing of weaknesses in the scientific record. These efforts reinforce our mission to promote transparency and accountability in scientific research by providing tools that facilitate community engagement and critical discourse. 3 3 0 1 0 206780 102128 101544 267660 3317 0 308324 373105 0 0 42000 45765 0 5603 49184 94683 91184 140448 217140 232657 317252 546508 0 317252 546508 The Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the quality of scientific research by fostering innovative platforms for community engagement and interaction. At the heart of our mission is PubPeer, our flagship initiative, aimed at centralizing and disseminating high-quality, valuable commentary on published research. By facilitating a unique convergence of direct user feedback and expert analyses, we strive to create a comprehensive ecosystem that elevates the standards of scientific discourse and contributes to the advancement of knowledge. Our commitment is to empower the scientific community to share, scrutinize, and build upon research findings, ensuring integrity, transparency, and excellence in the pursuit of scientific truth. false false 82754 In FY2025, we advanced our mission by expanding and rebuilding our dashboard service, improving user satisfaction, and increasing adoption by key stakeholders in scientific publishing. We also continued to grow the PubPeer platform, contributed to international policy conversations on academic integrity, and invested in the technical capacity needed to support the platforms future.PubPeer.com continued to grow as a central platform for post-publication peer review, with total comment volume reaching 80,360, up from 70,611 in FY2024 and more than tripling since 2020. We completed a full rewrite of our dashboard alerting service, addressing long-standing feature requests and usability concerns. This upgrade led to renewed subscriptions from publishers who had previously left the service due to limitations in the earlier version. We also signed new contracts with international publishers, an international association of publishers, and academic institutions. In parallel, we participated in high-level policy discussions on the future of academic publishing.Our primary focus in 2025 was the complete overhaul of the dashboard alerting service. The new version offers improved functionality, stability, and scalability, directly responding to feedback from existing and former users. These improvements resulted in both new and returning institutional and publisher subscribers. 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