Publons

The Publons icon represents the peer review tracking platform acquired by Clarivate, enabling researchers to document and receive recognition for peer review and editorial work. This symbol identifies the service that verifies and showcases reviewing activities, journal editing, and manuscript handling through partnerships with thousands of journals. Publons addresses the invisibility of peer review labor by creating persistent records of reviewing contributions integrated with researcher profiles and institutional reporting systems.

In academic career workflows, early-career researchers build Publons profiles documenting reviewing expertise for tenure files and promotion packages. Journal editors verify reviewer credentials through Publons reviewing histories before sending invitations, while research administrators track faculty service contributions for annual reviews. The platform's integration with Web of Science and automated review verification through journal partnerships has made it essential infrastructure for recognizing the hidden scholarly labor supporting publication systems.

From a scholarly communication perspective, this icon signifies more than just review tracking - it represents efforts to make invisible academic labor visible and valued, enables recognition of reviewing expertise independent of publication records, and provides data supporting research evaluation beyond citation metrics. This distinction helps users recognize Publons as infrastructure for comprehensive scholarly contribution assessment.

Publons is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 320 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds PublonsIcon to components/icons/academicons-publons.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed PublonsIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Publons icon, or any of 158 Academicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 320 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Publons", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PublonsIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PublonsIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Academicons, James Walsh and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Publons. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are profile, verification, recognition and academic. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Publons in another set.