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“Advancing the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints” – a Call to Action

Today, we’re happy to share a preprint written by a subset of the participants in December’s Recognizing Preprint Peer Review Meeting hosted by ASAPbio, HHMI and EMBO. It’s an exciting time for preprint review, with new services, models, and policies providing the foundation for a growing ecosystem.

Apr 04, 2023

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Recognizing Preprint Review journals and preprint review projects working group recommendations

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Recommendations on Recognizing Preprint Review from the ASAPbio Journals & Preprint Review Projects Working Group

The growth in use of preprints in the life sciences has opened up opportunities for innovation in the evaluation, discussion and review of research works. In the last few years, different projects and communities have started to provide comments and reviews of preprints, experimenting with a variety of models: readers may comment on preprints via the commenting features enabled by some preprint servers...

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Recommendations on Recognizing Preprint Review from the ASAPbio Funder, Researcher, and Institution Working Group

The broader use of preprints has led to a wide range of activities involving reactions, comments and review of preprints. This means that in the current ecosystem, peer review also happens outside of journals and can take place on research outputs shared as preprints, facilitating a more open and diverse discourse on research works.

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Survey points to key two challenges with preprint feedback: recognition and trust

In preparation for the Recognizing Preprint Peer Review workshop, ASAPbio integrated input from two working groups to prepare a survey for researchers, funders, and journal editors and publishing organization employees. The survey sought to gather views and experience with preprint feedback and review from a broad range of stakeholders, to help inform the conversations at the workshop.