JMIR Publications has announced a new collaboration with PREreview. The collaboration will build on the success of the pilot live-streamed peer review launched in April 2020; the resulting reviewed manuscript was published in JMIR Public Health and has been highly cited.
Preprints have come into their own in the last year and a half and have been recognized for their potential to accelerate science, particularly during public health crises. JMIR Publications recently announced the launch of JMIRx, an overlay journal that operates completely on top of preprint servers. Both JMIR Publications and PREreview have long recognized the potential of preprints to increase the transparency of science and accelerate discovery.
As part of this innovative peer review model, authors will be offered the opportunity to make their preprint the center of a facilitated discussion in the form of a live-streamed preprint journal club; this video conference session will be hosted by PREreview and provide a platform for experts and interested readers from all over the world to come together and provide constructive feedback on the research. The comments from those discussions will then become the basis for an editorial review, leading to a more speedy publication workflow.
Those interested in being a part of this pilot initiative may reach out to our Marketing Team for more information.
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