Publons was a commercial website that provided a free service for academics to track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions to academic journals. It was launched in 2012 and was bought by Clarivate in 2017. It claimed that over 3,000,000 researchers joined the site, adding more than one million reviews across 25,000 journals.

In 2019, ResearcherID was integrated with Publons.