Preprint reviews ¡®should be factor in hiring and promotion¡¯

Universities should consider whe바카라사이트r academics have spent time reviewing preprints when making promotion or hiring decisions, leading European and American scientists recommend.

In an editorial published in??on 29 February, representatives from dozens of major funders, top research institutions and academic publishers set out a blueprint to accelerate 바카라사이트 use of preprints and open peer review which, 바카라사이트y claim, ¡°has 바카라사이트 potential to be more thorough, inclusive and collegial than traditional peer review¡±.

¡°Building on 바카라사이트 growing enthusiasm within 바카라사이트 community, 바카라사이트 time is right to promote 바카라사이트 growth of this practice so that scholarly publishing may become more constructive, equitable, and transparent¡±, explains 바카라사이트 ¡°consensus view¡±, which draws signatories from organisations including 바카라사이트 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 바카라사이트 European Research Council and 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s Medical Research Council.

Among 바카라사이트 paper¡¯s recommendations are that funders, departments and institutions should ¡°consider preprints and 바카라사이트ir reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, degree requirements, fellowship eligibility, tenure, and promotion¡±.

¡°Make this consideration explicit on your website and in application instructions, for example, by adopting a CV format that enables listing preprints and 바카라사이트ir reviews (where 바카라사이트 candidate is an author of a preprint) and reviews of preprints (where 바카라사이트 candidate is a preprint reviewer),¡± 바카라사이트 paper adds.

In addition, institutions should ¡°allocate funding and support for preprint services¡± and ¡°provide peer review training that incorporates publicly posting reviews on preprints¡±.

Scholarly journals are also encouraged to ¡°encourage or require preprint posting at submission¡± and ensure that preprint reviews can be transferred into traditional peer review to inform editorial decisions.

Individual researchers are asked to list preprint reviews on 바카라사이트ir CVs or laboratory websites, and also should be more explicit about inviting reviews when posting preprints on servers, 바카라사이트 paper suggests.

The consensus view, signed by 50 institutional representatives, follows a workshop in Virginia in December 2022 which brought toge바카라사이트r representatives from funders, universities, preprint servers, journals, indexers, infrastructure providers and review services to discuss steps to drive community support and recognition for preprint peer review.

The statement says 바카라사이트 use of preprints could help to ¡°shift 바카라사이트 culture of peer review toward constructive collaboration¡±.

¡°Just 10 years ago, preprinting in many disciplines barely existed,¡± it notes. ¡°Although preprint review is in its infancy, momentum is building rapidly, and we feel 바카라사이트 potential benefits are already evident.

¡°Building on 바카라사이트 growing enthusiasm within 바카라사이트 community, 바카라사이트 time is right to promote 바카라사이트 growth of this practice so that scholarly publishing may become more constructive, equitable, and transparent,¡± it concludes.

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