PCI Recommender Guide
PCI Recommenders manage the evaluation of articles in the same way as editors do at journals, with a few differences.
PCI Reviewer Guide
Reviewing an article submitted to a PCI is very similar to reviewing for a journal but the review history will be published by PCI if the article is accepted.
How can you know whether or not a preprint has been recommended by a PCI?
You want to know whether the preprints in a search result list have been recommended by a PCI after peer-review or not. How can you do that?
Submit your preregistration to Peer Community In for peer review
Preregistrations are when you write your study plan (hypotheses, methods, and analysis plan) before you collect the data. The new feature we offer at PCI is the ability to submit your preregistrations for pre-study peer review.
PCI Economic model
PCI is a non-profit and non-commercial organization run by scientists for scientists. All costs are kept as low as possible.
Differences with other projects
Many new publication services have recently appeared. Here is a non-exhaustive list of these services, with comments, highlighting the differences between these services and PCI. Overlay journals (eg Discrete Analysis, Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science) are electronic open-access journals containing peer-reviewed articles deposited
Steps in the creation of a new PCI
1) Choose one or two colleagues to set up and manage the PCI Having at least two administrators improves the monitoring and sustainability of the project. Setting up the PCI involves defining the subject it will cover, establishing a first group of
PCI promotes scientific reproducibility
PCI wants to promote scientific reproducibility to improve the overall robustness and integrity of our scientific conclusions. To this aim, PCI has set up 3 mandatory rules and made 2 suggestions to authors: Mandatory rules: Preprints recommended by PCI must provide the
Geographic distribution of PCI recommenders
Distribution of the 1132 PCI recommenders of July 2020 by country Distribution of the 370 PCI EvolBiol recommenders of Dec 2018 The PCI project is supported by
PCI and Impact Factors
PCI does not have an impact factor (IF). Why? Simply because PCI is not a journal. It does not publish research articles. It publishes only evaluations of research articles and texts recommending research articles. Preprints recommended by a PCI can still be characterized