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Blog Category: Peer review

Explore the New Preprint Review Metadata Documentation

In 2023, ASAPbio and Europe PMC held a joint meeting on preprint review metadata. The event saw representatives from preprint review projects, infrastructure providers, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders convened to collaboratively determine the key elements of preprint review metadata and mechanisms for sharing this info...
Jun 18, 2025
Flowchart illustrating the process of organizing crowd reviews for a preprint. It includes steps from selecting a preprint, emailing reviewers, gathering comments, and posting a reviewed version, all within a 14-day timeline, leading to public posting.

A sneak peak inside the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review initiative

This blog post was co-written by Jonny Coates and 2024 ASAPbio Fellows; Josie, Jade & Lamis It’s peer review week and to celebrate, we are releasing a preview of one of the 2024 ASAPbio Fellows projects focused on investigating the ASAPbio Crow... ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review The theme of peer review week this year is “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”.
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Webpage showcasing Gracielle Higinos academic publications. Includes titles, authors, and categories for studies on ecological genetics, conservation biology, and information systems in science. Publications are dated June and July 2024.

A crowdsourced kind peer review guide for ECRs in Ecology and Evolution

This is a post written by Gracielle Higino about her community project that was funded in 2023. I was tired of hearing students and colleagues sharing their bad experiences with reviewers.
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Scientists sat around a table reviewing preprints with snacks inlcuding apples

Apply for support in converting your journal club to a preprint review club

Traditional journal clubs are present in most labs and departments bringing together early career researchers to discuss and review a chosen article. These groups effectively perform peer review but often don’t share the comments with the authors.
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Flowchart illustrating the Interactive Public Peer Review process for Biogeosciences by EGU. It shows stages like submission, access review, technical corrections, comments, and final revised paper. Includes roles of referees, editors, and community.

How journals are innovating in peer review through preprints

Preprints are increasingly becoming a tool to support the peer-review process and aid rapid dissemination of research results. The increased transparency in the review process that preprints can support has been welcomed by many journals with many pivoting to an environment of supporting preprints.
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Banner announcing Review Commons policy update

New policy: Review Commons makes preprint review fully transparent

By Thomas Lemberger This post originally appeared on reviewcommons.org. Preprints with public peer reviews (a.k.a.
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