Why integrate a social network into an academic publishing platform?

Elevating peer review to a level that reflects its importance to knowledge creation entails innovation and creativity.

We think this innovation should extend to the ways we as a community engage with the review process. It should also allow for open and direct contact between rival ideas without artificial geographic, institutional or chronological barriers.

Therefore it is only natural that, when designing a review-focused platform from scratch, it may share features with existing social networks.