PeerRef introduces PeerRef Communities
In collaboration with Sciety, we are piloting PeerRef Communities. The initiative helps groups of researchers engage with preprint peer review, get their reviews published, and enables the curation of peer reviewed preprints.
Why form a PeerRef Community?
Receive high-quality and trusted peer review from your community. Provide peer review for your community and get recognition by publishing your peer reviews with DOIs.
Expand and improve your network by engaging in community peer review.
Increase the value and discoverability of your community's reviewed preprints by collating them on Sciety.
Leverage PeerRef’s platform to publish reviews and reduce administrative work.
What is a PeerRef community?
A PeerRef Community is a group of researchers, at any stage in their careers, that are in the same field of research and want to advance open peer review of preprints. The community should have a specific research focus, which can be broad or narrow.
What does a PeerRef community do?
A PeerRef Community provides open peer review for each other’s preprints and peer reviews preprints that are of interest to their community.
How does PeerRef help?
PeerRef publishes the communities’ signed peer review reports and assigns DOIs to them. This allows reviewers to get recognition for their peer review contributions. PeerRef takes care of administrative aspects of peer review, helps members expand their community, and provides authors of reviewed preprints with a route to publication in partner journals.
How does Sciety help?
Reviews of bioRxiv, medRxiv, ResearchGate, SciELO and OSF preprints are posted on Sciety, where communities can combine their reviewed preprints into lists so that community-reviewed preprints can be discovered together and read as a collection. To aid the discoverability of community lists, Sciety recommends lists to relevant researchers based on the articles they read.
How to form a PeerRef Community
Visit the PeerRef Communities page for step-by-step information on forming a PeerRef Community.