In a nutshell
How it works: Free for scientists, journals pay.
1) Author submits manuscript, chooses Anonymous or Onymous mode, chooses process deadlines.
2) Manuscript becomes available for any validated community member to engage as reviewer, or recommend others as reviewers. Reviewer Essays must have sections Merit, Critique and Discussion, max 1000 words, may include list of references.
3) Reviewers must judge, score and give feedback to each other’s Essays, for accuracy and fairness in each three sections. Scores build reviewer’s performance metric, which can be shown publicly in reviewer’s profile.
4) Author uploads revised version.
5) Reviewers give final assessment on whether revision addresses valid critique, and if it is Publishable, Revisable, or Unpublishable.
6) Editors of multiple (currently 70) journals can access any peer reviews and can click to authors a direct, private offer to publish, or invitation to submit. Authors can also click journal logo to initiate correspondence.
Overview
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Type of project
Project
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Start date
2011-11-01
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Operated by
Peerage of Science Ltd
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Listing status
Verified
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Website
Goals and intentions
Once upon a time in a land probably far, far away from where you are now, a postdoc was (as they often are) sadly noticing another year commencing on the peer review process of his manuscript. It was his own fault of course: it had been his own darn choice to start the descent down the journal prestige ladder from the top, where the steps are most slippery.
Yet, it was dawning on the young scientist that this was also his illusions about scientific peer review meeting reality. Perhaps he should have paid more attention to the words of Richard Horton:
"We portray peer review to the public as a quasi-sacred process that helps to make science our most objective truth teller. But we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong."
Let’s change that.
Functions of the project
What is reviewed
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Review of data or code
Yes
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Manuscript hosting
Yes
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