mSphereDirect Verified listing

mSphereDirect was a response to the scientific community’s concerns about the current scholarly publishing process: peer review is too slow, the publishing process is too opaque, and journal editors may be too far outside their field when evaluating manuscripts. mSphereDirect put authors in the driver’s seat to secure reviews from suitable experts as rapidly as possible. Its objectives were to support the rapid communication of science, to give authors more control over the peer review process, and to provide guaranteed fast decisions. Additionally, mSphereDirect  increased transparency by publishing reviewer names with original research papers accepted via the mSphereDirect pathway. In this way, mSphereDirect merged two crucial publication concepts: relevant, quality peer review and vetted, rapid decisions.