Community Guidelines

Peer Receipts is for firsthand scientific experience with products, software, instruments, and services. Submit only observations you have made yourself and can stand behind.

Context is what makes a Receipt useful. Note the limits of what you saw — the lot, protocol, configuration, time period, or environment it applied to — so the next scientist can judge whether it transfers to their own work.

Do not submit promotional copy, paid endorsements, competitor attacks, manipulated ratings, or claims you know are false or misleading.

Do not include:

• employer confidential information or trade secrets
• unpublished sponsor information
• confidential project or programme names
• patient information
• login credentials
• private pricing terms
• personal information about other people

If your employer or collaborators would not permit you to share something publicly, leave it out.

A confirmed email proves control of that email account. Professional verification is a separate review step and may require accepted domain screening or manual approval. Do not impersonate another scientist, claim credentials you do not hold, or try to bypass verification.

Receipts are published without exposing contributor identity. Do not attempt to identify or expose an anonymous contributor, and do not ask others to.

When writing a Receipt, avoid details that would identify a colleague, a client, a patient, a trial, a confidential programme, or an internal batch or project. Name an institution only where it is already public and genuinely necessary to understand the scientific context.

Do not present yourself as an independent reviewer when you have a material relationship with the product, service, or vendor you are writing about. That includes:

• employment by the vendor
• consulting or advisory arrangements
• a financial interest in the vendor
• paid endorsement or compensated promotion
• free product provided in exchange for expected review content

Where such a relationship exists and you still have something useful to share, disclose it in the Receipt.

Receipts are only worth reading if they are real. Vendors, their staff, and anyone acting on their behalf must not:

• submit fake Receipts presented as independent
• coordinate ratings across people or accounts
• incentivize a predetermined rating
• pressure a contributor to remove genuine criticism
• submit attacks against competitors

Describe what you observed, rather than presenting an anecdotal observation as universal scientific fact. A result from one setting is evidence about that setting.

Do not encourage unsafe laboratory practice, regulatory violations, or breaches of institutional policy, and do not present manufacturer-incompatible practices as standard recommendations.

Report content that appears false, promotional, unsafe, confidential, personally identifying, unlawful, abusive, or otherwise inconsistent with these standards. Reports are reviewed privately and do not reveal professional email addresses or verification evidence to the public.

Peer Receipts may request revisions, withhold publication, hide or remove content, preserve an audit trail, or restrict accounts when needed to protect trust, privacy, and public content integrity.