By Katie Corker (ASAPbio), Ludo Waltman (CWTS Leiden), Jonny Coates (ASAPbio)
We are excited to share a new ASAPbio resource: a brief explainer on the Publish-Review-Curate model of scientific communication. We have published the explainer on MetaArXiv, and we invite you to access it here.
Abstract: The purpose of this brief is to provide an introduction to an increasingly popular way of communicating outputs of research: the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model. This model came into practice in the early 2000s, and it is now beginning to grow more rapidly. Here, we explain the model for the benefit of researchers, research funders, research institutions, and others in the scholarly communication ecosystem, and we provide data on uptake of the model to date.
We intend to periodically update the data in the explainer, which is shared on Zenodo. Also on Zenodo are the code snippets used to select articles for inclusion in the dataset.
We thank the following people who provided constructive feedback on this explainer: Lesley Anson (Science Colab), Michele Avissar-Whiting (HHMI), Jeroen Bosman (Universiteit Utrecht), Denis Bourguet (PCI), Scott Edmunds (GigaScience), Thomas Guillemaud (PCI), Anna Hatch (HHMI), Fiona Hutton (eLife), Thomas Lemberger (EMBL), Maria Levchenko (Europe PMC), Michael Markie (ICOR), Irene Nooren (SURF), Stephen Pinfield (University of Sheffield), Kathleen Shearer (COAR), and Bodo Stern (HHMI).
Explainer citation: Corker, K. S., Waltman, L., & Coates, J. A. (2024). Understanding the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model of scholarly communication. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/h7swt
Data citation: Corker, K. S., & Waltman, L. (2024). Understanding the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Model of Scholarly Communication – Data and Code (1.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13909969
