Publons Plugin: Failed Ajax request or invalid JSON returned

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Dear colleagues, please help solve the problem with Publons Plugin.

Installation - activation is successful.
But when we try to press Connection button to start using this plugin, we get an error

Failed Ajax request or invalid JSON returned

publon-error

this is the log

GET /index.php/test/$$$call$$$/grid/settings/plugins/settings-plugin-grid/manage?verb=connect&plugin=PublonsPlugin&category=generic&_=1560968103760 HTTP/1.0" 500 0 "https://tour.dp.ua/index.php/test/management/settings/website" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36

We tried to run the module on such versions: 3.1.0.1, 3.1.1.4, 3.1.2.1

Maybe someone has already encountered this problem. Please, help.

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Hi @OSU,

PKP doesnā€™t maintain that plugin ā€“ you might try contacting the plugin author, such as by filing an issue here: https://github.com/publons/ojs

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thank you!
We will try to contact them ā€¦

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Hi @asmecher,
does anyone solve problem with Publons plugin: Failed Ajax request or invalid JSON returned ?
In error log received>
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: Declaration of PublonsPlugin::register($category, $path) should be compatible with LazyLoadPlugin::register($category, $path, $mainContextId = NULL) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/plugins/generic/publons/PublonsPlugin.inc.php on line 349
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: Declaration of PublonsPlugin::smartyPluginUrl($params, &$smarty) should be compatible with Plugin::smartyPluginUrl($params, $smarty) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/plugins/generic/publons/PublonsPlugin.inc.php on line 349
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: Declaration of DRIVERDAO::setOAI(&$oai) should be compatible with PKPOAIDAO::setOAI($oai) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/plugins/generic/driver/DRIVERDAO.inc.php on line 19
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: Declaration of CustomBlockPlugin::getBlockContext() should be compatible with BlockPlugin::getBlockContext($contextId = NULL) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockPlugin.inc.php on line 134
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(plugins/generic/ojs-2.5.0.tar.gz/index.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp:/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty:/usr/share/l.v.e-manager/utils) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/plugins/PluginRegistry.inc.php on line 232
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(plugins/generic/ojs-2.5.0.tar.gz/Ojs-2.5.0.tar.gzGenericPlugin.inc.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp:/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty:/usr/share/l.v.e-manager/utils) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/plugins/PluginRegistry.inc.php on line 241
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(plugins/generic/ojs-master.zip/index.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp:/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty:/usr/share/l.v.e-manager/utils) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/plugins/PluginRegistry.inc.php on line 232
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(plugins/generic/ojs-master.zip/Ojs-master.zipGenericPlugin.inc.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp:/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty:/usr/share/l.v.e-manager/utils) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/plugins/PluginRegistry.inc.php on line 241
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: Declaration of PublonsSettingsForm::fetch($request) should be compatible with Form::fetch($request, $template = NULL, $display = false) in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/plugins/generic/publons/classes/form/publonsSettingsForm.inc.php on line 130
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Warning: filemtime(): stat failed for lib/pkp/templates/plugins/generic/publons/templatestemplates/publonsSettingsForm.tpl in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/template/PKPTemplateResource.inc.php on line 51
[29-Aug-2019 15:43:39 Europe/Belgrade] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ā†’ Smarty: Unable to load template ā€˜app:plugins/generic/publons/templatestemplates/publonsSettingsForm.tplā€™ ā†
thrown in /home/ijcadsee/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php on line 195

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Hi @OSU,

We donā€™t maintain that plugin; Iā€™d suggest contacting the author.,

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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As I understand it, in order to be able to use the module, you must first order paid servicesā€¦
Below is an excerpt from a letter from representatives of Publons

As well as being a profile site for researchers, Publons offers two paid-for services to journals (more info below). Our reviewer recognition service ā†’ a great way to motivate and engage your reviewers, as well as Reviewer Connect: a reviewer search tool.

  1. Reviewer Recognition Service: Publons integrates into the reviewer workflow so academics can track and verify every review and editorial contribution on-the-fly, and in full compliance with journal review policies.We integrate seamlessly with all submission systems to automate the process of recognising your reviewers. Hereā€™s a short video explaining how an integration works and our case study with the American Society for Microbiology goes into more detail about the benefits of partnering.

  2. Reviewer Connect: a great new search tool to help you quickly find the best reviewers, combining the power of Publonsā€™ exclusive peer review database with the unparalleled Web of Science author and citation index. You can see a short video here.