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Life sciences publisher doubles down on public peer review in effort to flag “trustworthy” papers
Life sciences journal eLife is switching its publication system towards “refereed preprints”, in a bid to flag trustworthy research that has not received the stamp of approval of traditional peer-reviewed publication.
Founded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust in 2012, eLife began as a largely traditional but not-for-profit journal. In May 2020 it began reviewing pre-prints—papers published by their authors without peer review—on the bioRxiv server.
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