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Peer Community In - free peer review & validation of preprints of articles Peer Community In Peer Community in” (PCI) is a non-profit scientific organization that aims to create specific communities of researchers reviewing and recommending, for free, unpublished preprints in their field. Contact contact@peercommunityin.org Follow us on Twitter LEGAL NOTICE Image Credits The network image was drawn by Martin Grandjean: A force-based network visualization - http://www.martingrandjean.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Graphe3.png. CC BY-SA. Home Current PCIs PCI Manifesto Partners & Supporters PCI and journals Peer Community Journal PCI-friendly journals FAQs About PCI structure and history PCI Finances People Newsletters, Files and Resources PCI statutes and reports PCI Webinar Series News Home Current PCIs PCI Manifesto Partners & Supporters PCI and journals Peer Community Journal PCI-friendly journals FAQs About PCI structure and history PCI Finances People Newsletters, Files and Resources PCI statutes and reports PCI Webinar Series News Peer Community in PCI, a free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer reviews and a journal FACTS & FIGURES 2000 RECOMMENDERS 17 PCIs more than 130 PCI FRIENDLY JOURNALS 1,283 SUBMISSIONS (31/12/2023) 4,088 PEER-REVIEWS (31/12/2023) 565 RECOMMENDATIONS (31/12/2023) 278 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN PCJ (31/12/2023) 150 SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS FEEDBACK Share your suggestions and comments to improve this website! Contact us at contact [ a.t ] peercommunityin [ d.o.t ] org Submit a preprint Read latest recommendations Read the Peer Community Journal PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. Sign the PCI Manifesto Following submission by authors, the thematic PCIs evaluate preprints in their scientific fields based on rigorous peer review. After evaluation, the PCIs may recommend those preprints, to make them complete, reliable and citable articles, without the need for publication in ‘traditional’ journals. Authors who need to publish their article in a journal can publish it for free in Peer Community Journal or submit it to a PCI-friendly or other journal. Thematic PCIs are entitled Peer Community in X, e.g. – Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology ( PCI Evol Biol ) and Peer Community in Ecology ( PCI Ecol ). See the list of all current PCIs . The recommendation of an article is a positive editorial decision made by a recommender based on at least two rigorous peer reviews and after one or several rounds of peer reviews. The recommendations are published in the corresponding thematic PCI websites with a DOI and can be cited. Once recommended by PCI, articles become citable valid references, similar to journal articles, but they can still be submitted to a journal or directly published in the Peer Community Journal . PCI IN A FEW LINES Stimulating, open, free, independent, inclusive and reliable. OUR KEY FEATURES Stimulating : Each PCI recommends remarkable articles in its field. Open : PCI is an open-science initiative based on: open access to the recommended articles (on preprint servers and open archives) open access to the evaluation (reviews, author’s responses and editorial decisions) data, scripts and code available to the readers an open infrastructure: The code, page texts (help texts, about, instructions, etc.) and automatic Email templates are available on the PCI github repository https://github.com/pci-dev . Free : The whole PCI process is free for any user (readers, authors…). The websites of the PCIs are freely accessible. Independent : PCI in not-for-profit and non-commercial. It is managed by scientists for scientists. Conflicts of interest are carefully checked at each step of the process. Inclusive : An article recommended by a PCI may subsequently be published in a traditional journal (although this is not the goal of the PCIs). Reliable : Decisions are based on sound evaluations by at least 2 reviewers. The Managing Board checks the quality of reviews, decisions, and recommendations. Peer Community In complies with publishing ethics guidelines. As part of the Diamond Open Access ecosystem, PCI allows scientists to regain control of the scientific publication process and disconnect it from financial issues. PCI also wants to refocus scientific quality on articles rather than on journals. REASONS TO BELIEVE IN PCI The PCI evaluation process is high-quality, free, and transparent. It is likely to succeed for the following reasons: 1. It fulfills the open science commitments requested by an increasing number of institutions, countries, funding agencies All articles recommended by PCI have open data, scripts, and code. All articles recommended by PCI are open access, freely accessible on preprint servers or institutional open archives PCI ensures transparent peer review 2. It results in a peer-reviewed article that can be cited as is or published in a journal Authors are free to either leave their recommended article on the preprint server or, if they need journal articles for their career, to publish it directly to Peer Community Journal or submit it to a PCI-friendly journal 3. It provides a solution to value reviewing and editorial work Recommendations (and associated reviews) are citable with their DOI Reviewers can choose to publish their names or to remain anonymous Institutions have direct access to the reviewing work of their researchers since each recommender of a thematic PCI has a page for displaying and reporting their reviews, comments, and recommendations ( example ). 4. It focuses on the scientific contents of articles and watches out for the ethical rules of publication Conflicts of interest are kept track of throughout the process Financial conflict of interest are forbidden In specific fields of research, PCI mandates approval from ethics committees and institutional review boards 5. It shares the workload between researchers Recommenders, unlike associate editors in traditional scientific journals, have no commitment to review and recommend papers. Each recommender is rather encouraged to review and recommend 1 or 2 articles per year in average. Because of the high number of recommenders, PCI will not be jeopardized if some recommenders are inactive and if the number of submissions sharply increases. 6. It benefits from a solid infrastructure PCI is managed by scientists from research institutions. It was funded by the French National Open Science Fund. It is financially supported by many universities and research bodies. PCI ensures long-time conservation of its contents in CLOCKSS. PCI receives strong institutional support because the current publishing system entails a considerable financial burden for these institutions. OUR SUPPORTS PCI is supported by 55 universities and major research institutes 25 learned societies 130 PCI- friendly journals 25 doctoral schools See the full list here If you want to support PCI, see the post How to support PCI?” Support PCI Funding agencies, evaluation committees, doctoral schools, research institution, research library, open archivess, repositories, and r esearchers can support PCI. HOW TO SUPPORT PCI? You are a: Representative of a funding agency, evaluation committee, or doctoral school, click here Representative of a research institution or research library, click here Representative of an open archive or repository, click here Researcher, click here If you or your organization would like to support PCI financially, click here Symbolic sponsorship Funding agencies, evaluation committees, and doctoral schools Funding agencies, evaluation committees, and doctoral schools can support PCI by endorsing the following statement: In all of its work, our organization considers articles recommended by a Peer Community In to be of the same value and to have the same status as articles published in a high-quality journal in the...