What’s of interest? This label will put your journal’s research integrity in black and white - Public Knowledge Project
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Employing decades of platform expertise, PKP has devised and tested a Publication Facts Label (PFL) for use with PKP’s Open Journal Systems. Clicking the Publication Facts dropdown on an article’s landing page reveals data on ten scholarly publishing standards drawn directly from the publishing platform. PKP is also exploring with other platform developers and publishers the potential for an industry-wide implementation of the PFL.
The PFL builds on the Nutrition Facts Label’s success in presenting factual data that has been shown to influence consumer thinking. The PFL has been developed in consultation with editors, researchers, science journalists, high school students, and their families. In Nature’s Question of the Week, 73% of 3,785 readers thought it “would be useful” (Apr 19 2024, scroll down). At an OASPA publishers’ presentation, 72 out of 73 attendees thought it would be “a useful addition to journals” (Sep 24, 2024). In a 130-journal PFL trial, of the 201 readers who opened it, “public” readers (21%) ranked its usefulness highest at 4.4 / 5 (Jun 25, 2025).
Where is it?: This label will put your journal's research integrity in black and white - Public Knowledge Project
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