A recent ASAPbio Community Call (February 26, 2025) was inspired by a preprint titled ‘Mapping the preprint review metadata transfer workflows.’ The preprint is a working group product borne out of the, ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint ... Maria presented first, defining preprint review metadata as “all kinds of information about the review record,” e.g., reviewer name, affiliation, link to preprint being reviewed, review outcome, assigned score, and more.
A group of attendees of ASAPbio have published a commentary in the “Policy Forum” section of the journal Science on May 20, 2016. Written by scientists and representatives from journals and funding agencies, the paper serves as a meeting report and summary of opinions on the use of preprints in the life sciences.
Correction: This paper contains a sentence stating that “the median review time at journals has grown from 85 days to >150 days during the past decade.” This is true of Nature, but not journals as a whole. Daniel Himmelstein’s analysis shows that delays across all journals have remained stable.
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