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 Registered Report to Peer Community In Registered Reports 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 from 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. A very valuable resource is the ReimagineReview explorer tool of ASAPbio. Overlay journals (eg Discrete Analysis, Discrete Mathematics &
Steps in the creation of a new PCI
Information about PCI -Proposers are invited to read the PCI website: https://peercommunityin.org -PCI blog posts are good resources for proposers: https://peercommunityin.org/blog-posts/ Adherence to PCI principles -Quality, reproducibility, and accessibility of science are the three main goals of PCI. -The quality of a scientific article should
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
PCI and Impact Factors
The thematic PCIs do not have impact factors (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