eLife's new model and its impact on science communication

Lara Urban; Mariana De Niz; Florencia Fernández-Chiappe; Hedyeh Ebrahimi; Laura K M Han; Devang Mehta; Regina Mencia; Divyansh Mittal; Elizabeth Ochola; Carolina Paz Quezada; Facundo Romani; Lana Sinapayen; Andy Tay; Aalok Varma; Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir

doi:10.7554/eLife.84816

eLife's new model and its impact on science communication

Elife. 2022 Dec 8:11:e84816. doi: 10.7554/eLife.84816.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz AI, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
² Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
³ Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
⁵ Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
⁶ Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁷ Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Sante Fe, Argentina.
⁸ Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁹ Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.
¹⁰ Departamento de Química Ambiental, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
¹¹ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹² Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
¹³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
¹⁴ National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
¹⁵ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

Abstract

The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group discusses eLife's new peer review and publishing model, and how the whole process of scientific communication could be improved for the benefit of early-career researchers and the entire scientific community.

Keywords: early-career researchers; none; peer review; point of view; preprints; research assessment; scientific publishing.

MeSH terms

Communication
Peer Review*