Session 3 – Innovations from editors to help authors with manuscript submission
Saturday, 25 June 2022 11.45am-1.00pm (Valencia time)
3.2 Multi-journal processes before and after journal submission
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.