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Recognizing Preprint Peer Review (2022)
December 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am - December 2, 2022 @ 5:00 pm UTC+0
Public review of preprints offers many benefits. It enables reviewers to focus on the science itself, allows authors to engage in constructive dialog with reviewers, and provides context on preprints for readers. cOAlition S and EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships have recently announced that they recognize peer-reviewed preprints as peer-reviewed publications, and some journals are accepting reviews from services such as Peer Community In and Review Commons.
Sponsored by HHMI, ASAPbio, and EMBO, this meeting aimed to promote community consensus and support for preprint peer review and to create funder, institutional, and journal policies that recognize both preprints with reviews, and reviews of preprints.
Selected information below archived from the Janelia conference page.
Related news & updates
2023-04-04 Meeting report (“Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints”) preprinted
2023-02-07 IOI publishes “Next steps for preprint review infrastructure” based on the workshop
2022-12-09 eLife annoucement: 9 funders support use of reviewed preprints in research assessment
2022-07-06 cOAlition S states that peer-reviewed preprints are recognized as publications
2022-04-25 EMBO announces pilot (now continued) to recognize refereed preprints for fellowship eligibility
Recordings
Slides
View on Google slides
Agenda
Working groups
Prior to the workshop, ASAPbio convened two working groups – one for representatives of Funders, Researchers, and Institutions, and a second for Journals and Preprint Review Services. These working groups produced presentations give during the first session of the meeting as well as the outputs linked below below.
Journals & Preprint Review Projects Working Group
Recommendations can be accessed on the ASAPbio website and are archived on Zenodo.
Participants
- Stefano Bertozzi, Rapid Reviews: Infectious Diseases, 0000-0002-1723-7085
- Theodora Bloom, BMJ, 0000-0002-0222-4177
- Dennis Bourguet, Peer Community In, 0000-0002-2109-5323
- Katherine Brown, Company of Biologists, 0000-0001-9110-8276
- Stephanie Dawson, ScienceOpen, 0000-0002-2298-2418
- Scott Edmunds, GigaScience, 0000-0001-6444-1436
- Thomas Guillemaud, Peer Community In, 0000-0003-0451-1644
- Phil Hurst, Royal Society ,0000-0001-7971-1005
- Michael Lacy, ASCB MBoC Preprint Highlights, 0000-0003-0498-2817
- Marcel LaFlamme, PLOS, 0000-0002-7489-4233
- Thomas Lemberger, EMBO, 0000-0002-2499-4025
- Elliott Lumb, PeerRef, 0000-0001-8703-6097
- Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi, 0000-0001-9623-2225
- Damian Pattinson, eLife, 0000-0002-2606-6599
- Jessica Polka, ASAPbio, 0000-0001-6610-9293
- Daniela Saderi, PREreview, 0000-0002-6109-0367
- Brandon Stell, PubPeer, 0000-0003-1287-9211
- Sowmya Swaminathan, Springer Nature, 0000-0002-0285-4910
- Iratxe Puebla, ASAPbio, 0000-0003-1258-0746
Funder, Researcher, and Institution Working Group
Recommendations can be accessed on the ASAPbio website and are archived on Zenodo.
Participants
- Michele Avissar-Whiting, HHMI, 0000-0003-0030-3135
- Frederique Belliard, TU Delft, 0000-0001-8750-7207
- Sonya Dumanis, Aligning Science Across Parkinsons, 0000-0002-3345-9497
- Kristin Eldon Whylly, Templeton World Charity Foundation, 0000-0002-4677-148X
- Ashley Farley, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 0000-0001-9310-6944
- Maryrose Franko, HRA, 0000-0003-1870-8472
- Haley Hazlett, DORA, 0000-0001-9937-435X
- Kleber Neves, Serrapilheira Institute, 0000-0001-9519-4909
- Iratxe Puebla, ASAPbio, 0000-0003-1258-0746
- Johan Rooryck, cOAlition S, 0000-0001-7214-7405
- Steve Royle, Warwick, 0000-0001-8927-6967
- John Spiro, Simons Foundation, 0000-0003-2820-5844
- Bodo Stern, HHMI, 0000-0002-4900-936X
- Michaela Strinzel, SNSF, 0000-0003-3181-0623
- Jessica Polka, ASAPbio, 0000-0001-6610-9293
Invited participants
- Michael Arentoft, European Commission
- Prachee Avasthi, Arcadia Science
- Michele Avissar-Whiting, HHMI
- Frederique Belliard, TU Delft
- Stefano Bertuzzi, RR:C19
- Theodora Bloom, BMJ
- Dennis Bourguet, Peer Community In
- Jeffrey Brainard, Science
- Amy Brand, MIT Press
- Katherine Brown, CoB
- Matt Buys, Datacite
- Geraldine Clement-Stoneham, MRC UKRI
- Stephanie Dawson, ScienceOpen
- Tom Demeranville, ORCID
- Gautam Dey, EMBL
- Sonya Dumanis, Aligning Science Against Parkinsons
- Scott Edmunds, GigaScience
- Mike Eisen, eLife
- Kristin Eldon Whylly, Templeton Foundation
- Ashley Farley, Gates
- Tara Fischer, NIH (Youle Lab)
- Maryrose Franko, HRA
- James Fraser, UCSF
- Kathryn Funk, NLM
- Clarisse Ganier, King’s College London (Watt Lab)
- Laurie Goodman, GigaScience
- Thomas Guillemaud, PCI
- Melissa Harrison, Europe PMC
- Anna Hatch, HHMI
- Haley Hazlett, DORA
- Samantha Hindle, PREreview
- Daniel Hook, Digital Science
- Hannah Hope, Wellcome
- Phil Hurst, Royal Society
- Fiona Hutton, eLife
- John Inglis, bioRxiv/medRxiv
- Ankita Jha, NIH (Waterman Lab)
- Sophien Kamoun, Sainsbury Laboratory
- Robert Kiley, cOAlition S
- Harlan Krumholz, Yale
- Salvatore La Rosa, Childrens Tumor
- Michael Lacy, MBoC Preprint Highlights
- Marcel LaFlamme, PLOS
- Rebecca Lawrence, F1000
- Thomas Lemberger, EMBO
- Maria Leptin, ERC
- Elliott Lumb, PeerRef
- Catriona Maccallum, Hindawi
- Christoper Marcum, OSTP
- Gabriele Marinello, Qeios
- Alex Mendonca, SciELO
- Sara Monaco, Review Commons
- Dyche Mullins, UCSF
- Kleber Neves, Serrapilheira Institute
- Erin O’Shea, HHMI
- Lisa Oskam, Utrecht University (Pierik Lab)
- Louise Page, Gates
- Damian Pattinson, eLife
- Naomi Penfold, IOI
- Jessica Polka, ASAPbio
- Iratxe Puebla, ASAPbio
- Martyn Rittman, CrossRef
- Johan Rooryck, cOAlition S
- Steve Royle, Warwick
- Daniela Saderi, PREreview
- Katie Schretter, Janelia (Rubin Lab)
- Richard Sever, bioRxiv
- Kathleen Shearer, COAR
- John Spiro, Simons
- Gabe Stein, KFG
- Brandon Stell, PubPeer
- Bodo Stern, HHMI
- Michaela Strinzel, SNF
- Sowmya Swaminathan, Springer Nature
- Dario Taraborelli, CZI
- Ron Vale, HHMI
- Claudia Vásquez, UW (as of Jan 2023)
- Ludo Waltman, CWTS
- Fiona Watt, EMBO
- Zara Weinberg, UCSF