MBoC Preprint Highlights

Brief, structured summaries and badges for preprints selected by editors

In a nutshell

Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), a journal of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), posts Preprint Highlights selected and prepared by the journal’s Early-Career Editors. They provide brief summaries and structured recognition of selected preprints in the form of Badges and Significance Statements.

Goals and intentions

With this project, ASCB aims to promote the curation of the preprint literature for the benefit of the scientific community. We intend for MBoC Preprint Highlights to help readers from diverse backgrounds discover relevant preprints to read and understand the background context and importance of the work.

Badges visually alert readers to valuable components of the research, such as openly accessible data sets or software, useful instructional materials, and more. Significance Statements give a brief and broadly accessible overview of the background, key findings, and potential impacts of the study.

MBoC Preprint Highlights are posted on ASCB.org and linked on the preprint in bioRxiv, but do not imply that the preprint has been peer-reviewed or will be published by MBoC.

This project was initially supported by a Learned Society Curation Award from the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to ASCB.

Project status

Active

Types of outputs

Preprints

Review process

Review requested by

Non-authors
Reviewer selected by

Self-nominated
Public interaction

No
Author response

No
Decision

None

Review policy

Review coverage

Complete paper, Specific aspects
Reviewer identity known to

Public
Competing interests

Checked

Social Networks

Gallery

Review features

Manuscript hosting

No
Eligible reviewers/editors

MBoC's Early-Career Editors have been selected through an open call for applications. These editors identify preprints within their own topics of interest to review and highlight.
Tags or badges

Yes

Transparency

Open identities

Results

Number of scholarly outputs commented on

10-100
Metrics

We will track reader usage and other metrics of the Preprint Highlights and the preprints themselves. We will compile a public report after the first year of activity, to be published as an editorial in MBoC.

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