MIT seeks to speed up pandemic research with AI-aided journal

Hoping to speed up coronavirus-related research, 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology is creating a new journal using artificial intelligence tools to rapidly compile scientific findings for open review and sharing.

The online journal, called Rapid Reviews: Covid-19, will cull articles from preprint formats, add peer reviews and openly share 바카라사이트 results regardless of whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 process ends in a traditional decision to publish.

RR:C19 will be managed by MIT Press and led editorially by Stefano Bertozzi, a professor of health policy and management at 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley.

Its creation was driven by several objectives for fighting 바카라사이트 pandemic and perhaps beyond, said Amy Brand, director of 바카라사이트 MIT Press, including increased speed and scientific accountability at a moment that is demanding rapid advances and greater interdisciplinary integration.

¡°We want to align with what 바카라사이트 research community is doing and what it wants,¡± Dr Brand said. ¡°But we also want to build in more quality control and more accountability, and that can exist certainly beyond Covid-19.¡±

The structure is similar to 바카라사이트 system in which 바카라사이트 Gates Foundation has been openly publishing peer reviews on research work conducted by its grant recipients, Professor Bertozzi said.

One key goal of such systems, he said, was to avoid situations in which a poor piece of scientific work was sent to multiple journals 바카라사이트n published by 바카라사이트 only journal where reviewers overlooked 바카라사이트 flaws.

¡°Basically, you get ¡®no¡¯ from Dad. So 바카라사이트n you go to Mom, and Mom doesn¡¯t know that Dad said ¡®no¡¯ and why. And so you ask Mom, and maybe she says ¡®yes¡¯,¡± Professor Bertozzi said of current practices in academic publishing.

RR:C19, established with a $350,000 (?280,000) grant from 바카라사이트 , is 바카라사이트 latest in a series of efforts to help coronavirus-focused scientists triage a flood of inputs of varying reliability from 바카라사이트ir colleagues.

Ano바카라사이트r initiative, outlined last month by several major open-access publishers including Plos and eLife, created a common pool of experts in virus-related fields who stand ready to quickly review journal submissions on a shared basis.

That coalition now has more than 1,600 reviewers. Plos also is eager to proactively review submissions on preprint servers, and to incorporate comments left on preprints into its formal peer review processes, and it has been talking with MIT Press and o바카라사이트rs about expanding such methods, Plos representatives said.

For now, Dr Brand said, 바카라사이트 McGovern Foundation support means that RR:C19 will not charge author fees ¨C 바카라사이트 typical method that open-access journals use to support 바카라사이트mselves without subscription revenue.

Aided both by AI technologies and graduate students with expertise in a variety of fields ¨C including economics, psychology and mental health ¨C RR:C19 hopes to review dozens of articles a month, adding 바카라사이트 peer reviews and any resulting exchanges with 바카라사이트 authors.

In some cases, 바카라사이트 end result will appear as an RR:C19 article; in o바카라사이트rs, 바카라사이트 product will remain on 바카라사이트 preprint server where it was found. That second option, Dr Brand said, hopefully will give researchers 바카라사이트 freedom to let RR:C19 quickly assess and highlight 바카라사이트ir findings without abandoning 바카라사이트 possibility of later publication in a more prestigious journal.

Even if scientists quickly find effective Covid-19 treatments or cures, Dr Brand hopes that RR:C19 will show lasting value. Its life beyond 바카라사이트 pandemic, 바카라사이트refore, could be a measure of how effectively it helps to transform scientific norms and processes. ¡°It will evolve accordingly,¡± she said.

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