1. Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
In physics we have the concept of particles with names like electrons, photons, phonons, gluons, etc. While I was doing my PhD, one of my professors - a good friend of mine - introduced me to a new kind of particle, the publon. A publon is a hypothetical particle representing the minimum unit of publishable material. It’s a joke in academic circles about the relentless pressure to publish more. And that is where Publons came from.