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    SciBase

    Crowdsourced Reviews of Chemistry & Life Science Papers

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    In a nutshell

    SciBase is a website hosting crowdsourced reviews of chemistry and life science manuscripts. The site indexes published work that has a digital object identifier (DOI) and then allows users to leave reviews of the manuscript. The reviews can be left anonymously or publicly, and SciBase curates all content to ensure it meets the standard of academic discourse.

    Reviews are aggregated into 1-5 stars at a manuscript level, and within subcategories (e.g. clarity, reproducibility). Reviews themselves can also be rated by other users on a 1-5 star scale.

    Goals and intentions

    The goal of SciBase is to breath life in to the post-publication discourse by providing a platform for scientists to record their thoughts about and attempts at reproducing studies. The SciBase team believes that the future of scientific discourse will not happen entirely in published manuscripts, and the move to social media discussion of preprint and publications is the beginning of a larger movement toward post-publication peer review.

    SciBase aims to provide a platform to organize these scientific discussions to they are accessible to all scientists, and believes that only through honest public discussion can post-publication review become part of the scientific process. We also hope that authors will engage with reviews on SciBase to provide context and clarification to their published work.

    Project status

    • Active

    Types of outputs

    • Journal accepted manuscripts
    • Other scholarly outputs
    • Preprints

    Review process

    • Review requested by
      Non-authors
    • Reviewer selected by
      Self-nominated
    • Public interaction
      Yes
    • Author response
      No
    • Decision
      Other scale or rating

    Review policy

    • Review coverage
      Complete paper
    • Reviewer identity known to
      Public
    • Competing interests
      Not included

    Review features

    • Manuscript hosting
      No
    • Notes

      Reviewers can opt to be anonymous or to post with their real identity. There are links out to the original DOI locations on all manuscripts.

    • Review of code or data
      No
    • Eligible reviewers/editors
      Any visitor is eligible to make an account and leave a review, but the SciBase team asks about education level and screens reviews for quality.
    • Tags or badges
      No

    Transparency

    • Open participation

    Results

    • Number of scholarly outputs commented on
      100-1,000
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