PeerSigned

Research publishing is broken.

Nobody will review your paper.

Nobody pays the reviewers.

We sell the fix, in both directions.

$149 · two signed reviews · ten days · refunded if late

No DOI yet? A free one takes about 10 minutes. Here's how.

Here to review, not be reviewed? Get paid for it instead.

What you're buying

Peer review, as a product

Two researchers who've published in your field read your paper. They work through a fixed checklist: say back what your paper claims, name the assumption it depends on, tie every comment to a specific line, and check that your references are real. Then they sign their names to it.

If a review passes our quality bar, it goes online permanently, attached to your paper. Anyone who looks the paper up sees it: an editor, a grant committee, a reader ten years from now.

The record sticks whether the reviews are good or bad. That's what makes a good one worth something.

REVIEW RECORD format example
Work reviewed
doi:10.xxxx/your-paper
Central claim, restated
The reviewer's own restatement of what your paper argues. If they can't restate it, that's a finding too.
Load-bearing assumption
The one assumption your result depends on, named plainly.
Anchored comments
Every point tied to a section or line. Includes the critical ones.
References checked
Each citation resolved and verified against its source.
Reviewer
name · ORCID iD
signed · dated · scored

The record format. Reviews are scored against this rubric before they count toward your two.

Run the comparison

Why not just submit to a journal?

Because for most people reading this page, the journal route is a locked door with a year-long line in front of it. Side by side:

Traditional journal
PeerSigned
Wait
Months to years. Editors send 4.5 invitations per review secured; 100 invitations mean 407 combined days of waiting (ScholarOne, 2026).
10 days, guaranteed. Miss it and you pay nothing.
Cost
"Free" behind a paywall, or open access at $2,000 and up in article charges.
$149, flat.
Who gets in
Affiliation and endorsement gates. Independents mostly don't.
Anyone with a DOI and an ORCID on the paper.
The reviews
Anonymous, private, gone after the decision. Nobody can cite them and nobody's name is on them.
Signed, public, DOI-bearing, citable. They accumulate on your paper instead of evaporating.
Your citations
Your work sits invisible in a queue while it waits to exist.
Your DOI stays public and citable the whole time, and the record gives readers a reason to trust what they cite.
If it goes badly
Desk rejection with no feedback. Start over somewhere else, silently.
Honest signed reviews delivered either way. Out of scope means a full refund.
Who owns it
The journal runs the process and often takes the copyright.
Your DOI, your paper, a public record nobody can take down.

To be clear about what we are not: we don't publish your paper and we don't promise a journal will. A journal sells a venue. We sell the examination, on the record.

The empty seat

You can't buy this anywhere else

We looked hard, because if someone already sold it we'd have used them instead of building this.

ResearchHubpays reviewers in crypto tokens and behaves like a journal. You're submitting, not buying.
ReviewerCredits, Prophysell reviewer-finding to publishers. Authors aren't the customer at all.
Kolabtree, Upworksell private critique. Useful, invisible, and worth nothing to anyone who wasn't in the email thread.
Rubriq, Peerage of Science, Axios Reviewtried author-side review a decade too early and died with their publisher patrons, before the crisis made the case.

An author with money and no institution has had nowhere to spend it on review, and a reviewer with expertise has had nowhere to sell it. This is the counter, and it has two windows.

The clock

Ten days, start to record

Day 0
Paste your DOI and pay. We pull the public metadata; no files change hands, ever. Your money is held, not earned: it sits untouched until both reviews are delivered.
Day 1
We prescreen by hand within 24 hours. Research-shaped, readable references, a field we cover. Out of scope means a full refund, no argument. In scope but flawed proceeds: an honest negative review is the product working.
Days 2 to 9
Two reviewers read and write. Matched on field overlap with their own publication records, working against the rubric, signing with their real names.
Day 10
Two scored reviews delivered, or every dollar back. That deadline is the product. We don't get paid for almost.

No fine print

What this isn't

Straight answers, because this audience checks.

Not an endorsement

We sell examination. A PeerSigned record says qualified people looked and what they said. If your paper has problems, the reviews will say so in public, under real names. A clean record means something precisely because a bad one is possible.

Not a journal

We don't publish your paper and we don't promise anyone else will. What we leave behind is a signed public record any editor can check for themselves.

Not blind

Reviewers sign. Their review history is public and scored, so reputation does the work anonymity was supposed to do, without the drive-by incentives.

$149 per paper, flat

Two signed, scored reviews in 10 days. No submission fee, no per-page charges, no membership. Most of the money goes to the reviewers, which is why they're qualified and why they show up.

Want the reviews kept off the public record? A private order is $174: the extra $25 goes to the reviewers, who give up the public credit. You pick at checkout, before any review exists.

Refunds are simple. Out of scope: full refund. Fewer than two delivered reviews by day 10: full refund. Refunds go back to the card that paid, and we don't argue about them.

Paste your DOI and start

Reviewers: this is paid work now

Cash per review, or credit toward review of your own paper. Every passing review is a signed, citable line in a scored public record under your name. Admission is selective and earned.

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