Pubpeer

The PubPeer icon represents the post-publication peer review platform enabling researchers to anonymously comment on, question, and discuss published scientific papers. This symbol identifies the controversial yet influential system for ongoing scholarly discourse beyond traditional pre-publication peer review, allowing concerns about methodology, data integrity, or interpretation to be raised after publication. PubPeer has become central to debates about research transparency and post-publication quality control.

In research integrity workflows, scientists discover PubPeer comments flagging potential image manipulation or statistical concerns in published papers. Journal editors investigate articles after substantial PubPeer discussions emerge, while early-career researchers debate whether to engage with critical PubPeer threads about their work. The platform's anonymous commenting policy and integration with major publishers has made it influential infrastructure for ongoing research critique, though debates persist about anonymous criticism and its effects on researchers.

From a research quality perspective, this icon signifies more than just a comment platform - it represents evolving models of continuous peer review, enables crowd-sourced research quality assessment extending beyond editorial decisions, and provides channels for raising concerns when traditional systems fail. This distinction helps users recognize PubPeer as infrastructure for ongoing research scrutiny complementing traditional peer review.

Pubpeer 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 PubpeerIcon to components/icons/academicons-pubpeer.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 PubpeerIcon 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 Pubpeer 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="Pubpeer", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PubpeerIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PubpeerIcon 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.

Its tags are research, discussion and comments. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Pubpeer in another set.