PeerJ has announced a partnership with the Peer Community In Registered Reports to facilitate the publication of Registered Reports.
Peer Community In (PCI) is a non-profit organization, run by researchers, which provides peer review of preprints for free. Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI RR) is a community that focuses on registered reports, which emphasize the importance of the research question and the quality of methodology by conducting peer review prior to data collection, thus shifting focus to the hypothesis and study design, rather than the results.
The initiative is very much in line with PeerJ’s mission to give researchers the publishing tools and services they want, and aligns with our aims and ethos: serving different research communities by responding positively and cooperatively to the way they want to publish their science; driving down the cost of publishing and providing the best possible value for money; and, most importantly, focusing on the scientific process rather than just the most sensational outcomes.
Authors whose submissions are favorably peer reviewed and accepted by PCI RR will be given the option to submit their peer-reviewed article to one of 15 PCI RR-friendly journals, which include PeerJ’s seven journals - PeerJ – the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, PeerJ Computer Science, PeerJ Physical Chemistry, PeerJ Organic Chemistry, PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry, PeerJ Analytical Chemistry, and PeerJ Materials Science
Other PCI RR-friendly journals are: BMJ Open Science, Royal Society Open Science, F1000Research, Infant and Child Development, NeuroImage: Reports, Addiction Research & Theory, Cortex, and Experimental Psychology.
As a publisher of PCI RR-friendly journals, PeerJ endorses the PCI RR review criteria and commits to accepting without further peer review any manuscript that achieves a positive final recommendation from PCI RR, subject to the authors paying the applicable article processing charge or purchasing a PeerJ Lifetime membership, and the manuscript meeting formatting requirements.
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