Monday, 14 November 2022

Changing the culture of scientific publishing from within: Ten Years Later

This post summarises my twitter thread of 28 October announcing our new Registered Reports policy at Cortex.

 

10 years ago, almost to the day, we received Elsevier’s approval to launch Registered Reports at the journal Cortex. Cortex became one of the core founding journals for the initiative, which has now been taken up by over 300 journals and review platforms.

 

 

The “1.0” model of RRs is journal-based. You choose your journal (such as Cortex), submit to it, and if Stage 1 and Stage 2 review are positive, you publish in that journal. 

 

This journal-based approach has many limitations, which I summarise in this talk and the slide below. So last year, in a move to create a free, open & community-controlled review platform for RRs that is independent of journals & publishers, we launched the Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI RR) a child of the larger Peer Community In initiative.