Scientific journals select for quality and rigour. However, they also select for editorial scope, including varying degrees of conceptual advance, depth and breadth of the analysis. This second dimension of selectivity leads to a dramatic inefficiency in bioscience publishing. Serial submission not only undermines the efficacy of editorial processes, but also the scientific process. I will present a collaborative interjournal informed transfer process we have established between three partner publishers and how this may be extensible using the MECA standard. I will also introduce the concept of the Refereed Preprint and the Review Commons journal agnostic peer review service as mechanisms to build a constructive publishing framework beyond publisher silos.
Appropriate for journal editors, and anyone involved with handling or managing peer review.
Chief Editor, EMBO Reports; Head, Scientific Publications, EMBO, EMBOGermany
Bernd Pulverer has been a scientific editor for 24 years, including senior editor at Nature, and chief editor at Nature Cell Biology, the EMBO Journal and now EMBO Reports. He is the head of EMBO Press.
This session in full
Session 3 – Innovations from editors to help authors with manuscript submission
Chair: Aimee Nixon, MDPI
3.1 Going with the flow: how to build an effective cascade network – Piers Stanger, Institute of Physics Publishing (more details)
3.2 Multi-journal processes before and after journal submission – Bernd Pulverer, EMBO (more details)
3.3 Format-free submission: gain for some, pain for others? – Michael Willis, Wiley (more details)